Historically important marksman's cup from Sangerhausen in the Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels 1714 Colourless glass. Flat disc base with turned rim. Richly articulated baluster shaft with disc nodi and spirally twisted ball nodi, cylindrical dome rounded below. Matte-cut decoration: on the bowl a stylised target in a wreath of leaves and flowers and an oval medallion with the ligature monogram "CCC" for Duke Christian von Sachsen-Weißenfels (reigned 1717-1736), framed by laurel branches and crowned by an elector's hat; the foot with corresponding inscription (in capitals) "Scheibenschiesen gehalten in Graben zu Sangerhausen, d(en): 12. Juny 1714". H. 20.6 cm. Christian (1682 - 1736), from a collateral line of the Albertine Wettins, ruled as Duke of the Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels, a secondary principality and territory in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1712. An important Saxon or Thuringian engraved glass goblet on the occasion of a shooting match in Sangerhausen in the Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels with the monogram of Christian Duke of Saxony-Weissenfels, inscription and date 1714. Saxony or Thuringia. 1714.