AN 'ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI' CIDER JUG AND COVER

CIRCA 1790

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AN 'ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI' CIDER JUG AND COVER
Circa 1790
Finely painted with the medal of the Order of the Cincinnati, one side showing the obverse, with Cincinnatus receiving his sword from three Roman senators as he stands before his cottage door with his wife at his side, encircled by the inscription OMNIA RELINQUIT SERVARE REMPUBLICAM, the other side showing the medal's reverse, with Cincinnatus sowing seed after returning home, and encircled by SOCIETAS CINCINNATORUM INSTITUTA AD 1783, both sides displayed on the United States eagle's breast, his head encircled by laurel wreaths, and above the gilt script initials SS, all on a ground scattered with grisaille floral sprigs
10in. (26cm.) high

來源

Samuel Shaw
His nephew, Robert Gould Shaw (1776-1853)
His oldest son, Francis George Shaw (1809-1882) and then by descent to Robert B. Minturn, Jr.
With Fred B. Nadler Antiques

展覽

Reportedly exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1920 when in the collection of Mrs. Robert Minturn

拍品專文

Made for Major Samuel Shaw (1754-1794), supercargo on the Empress of China, the first American ship to reach Canton, having set sail from New York 22 February 1784. Major Shaw had been a wartime aide to both General Washington and General Henry Knox. Knox conceived the idea of the Society of the Cincinnati to honor the brave American farmer-patriots who had won their War of Independence, becoming Secretary of the Society while Washington was its President. Shaw, on his first trip to Canton, had commissioned porcelain decorated with the Order of the new Society within underglaze blue borders. This porcelain, which followed him home on the Pallas in 1785, was sold in Baltimore and New York, including the pieces that went to Washington, now largely at Winterthur. Shaw returned to China, in fact becoming the first United States Consul to Canton, and organized by 1790 orders for several Cincinnati tea sets for friends and one service for himself with the then-fashionable grisaille floral sprigs. A punchbowl from this service in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Beurdeley, op. cit., cat. 217. Also see Howard & Ayers, op. cit., pp. 488-92 and Howard, New York and the China Trade, pp.74 and 78.