AN ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI PLATE

CIRCA 1785

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AN ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI PLATE
CIRCA 1785
Painted in the center with a hovering angel blowing her trumpet suspending the Order of the Cincinnati, within a molded scalloped rim decorated in underglaze blue with a Fitzhugh type border
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam.

來源

With Elinor Gordon, Villanova, PA

拍品專文

From the famed service purchased by Colonel 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee for George Washington in New York in 1786, 66 pieces of which are at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware. The insignia of the Cincinnati Society (founded in 1783 at the suggestion of Major General Henry Knox, inspired by the Roman farmer turned patriot/soldier Cincinnatus) was borne proudly by the leaders of the new Republic. The Chinese porcelain orders were organized by Major Samuel Shaw, supercargo on the Empress of China and former aide-de-camp to General Knox. See D.S. Howard and J.S. Ayers, op. cit., pp. 489-91 and A. Palmer, A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain, p. 133.