THE ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI: AN AMERICAN ENAMELED GOLD EAGLE - photo 1

THE ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI: AN AMERICAN ENAMELED GOLD EAGLE

Lot 597
20.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 883807
Lot 597 | THE ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI: AN AMERICAN ENAMELED GOLD EAGLE
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$ 3 000 – 5 000
THE ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI: AN AMERICAN ENAMELED GOLD EAGLE

PROBABLY PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA OR SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Obv. Head left, with black enamel beak and red eye, head talons and tail opaque white enamel delineated with gilt “quilted” feathers, medallion with large figures of senator giving sword to Cincinnatus, motto in small lettering OMNIA . RELINQUIT . SERVAR . REMPUBLICAM on white enamel

Rev. medallion depicting large figure of Cincinnatus with plow, with house, rising sun and ship behind, motto in small lettering VIRTUS PROEMIUM S. TAS CINCINNATORUM INSTITUTA A.D. 1783 on white enamel

The feathers chased, a wreath of translucent green enamel leaves and red berries connect to plain oval suspension ring;

Together with a bronze Medal of the Society, depicting the same subjects in greater detail, marked on side WHITEHEAD-HOAG

48 mm. high, to top of first ring; 51 mm. diameter, the bronze medal





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January-1 February 1986, lot 407.



Literature

Minor Myers Jr., The Insignia of The Society of the Cincinnati, Washington D.C., 1989, p. 53.



Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long term loan, 2009-2022.
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