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View full screenThe Bruce Nile Cup, a silver mounted coconut shell cup, the nut bowl lined with silver with overlapping scalloped rim, set on a beaded baluster stem and fluted stepped trumpet foot, used by James Bruce to drink to the health of George III at Lake Tana, Ethiopia, on 4 November 1770
K.2006.294
c. 1770
Silver mounted coconut shell
User: Bruce, James, 1730 - 1794
Subject: George III
Place of use: Lake Tana, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
Discoveries Redisplay, 2015
Discoveries (29 Jul 2011 - 2016)
National Museum of Scotland