KÖNIGREICH BAYERN - ORDEN VOM PFÄLZER LÖWEN: Bruststern zum Ordenskreuz, Ende 18. Jahrhundert.
Particularly large embroidered copy of silver lantern, silver threads and sequins. The inscription of the cross arms INS / TI / TU / TOR gilded. The crowned cipher of the donor Elector Carl Theodor also made of gilded sequins. The elector's hat in erha-ben, especially arched embroidery. The star is executed in particularly fine, raised silver embroidery of unusual plasticity. On the back completely preserved cover paper with handwritten maker's name and date: "A. Wiederhold Hofgoldsticker 1802". Another embroidered original is in the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt. Jörg Nimmergut reproduces in his Order Handbook a copy in the possession of the Smithonian Institution in Washington D.C.. Karsten Klingbeil reproduces in his standard work Orden, 1700 2000, p. 126 ff. different specimens, among them one very similar to the breast star offered here (No. 358). In the Electoral Palatine Museum of the city of Heidelberg a metal star made of silver and gold is kept. metal star. A particularly finely crafted breast star from the hand of the famous Parisian goldsmith Martin Guillaume Biennais is in a important European private collection. In total there are not more than a dozen preserved original copies of the breast star of the Order of the Palatine Lion are known. Early embroidered Order Stars of the German states have survived only in very small numbers. Often the state of preservation is according to the age very unsatisfactory and impairs the overall aesthetic impression. The specimen offered here is in quite excellent condition. Even the silver parts show only minor traces of oxidation. Significant order star of great rarity.
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