A CENTRAL GERMAN ARMORIAL GOBLET, the thistle-shaped bowl with beaded lower part engraved with a coat-of-arms encircled by the chain and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, on ermine mantling suspended from a coronet, beneath a polished bead border, the lower part with a band of raised mattschnitt stiff leaves beneath bead ornament, supported on a faceted knop above an almost hollow inverted baluster stem similarly decorated to the base of the bowl and terminating in a basal knop, on a domed and folded foot, circa 1730, perhaps Hesse