3 Bayern: Orden vom Pfälzer Löwen: Bruststern zum Ordenskreuz vom Ende des 18. Jahrhundert

Particularly large embroidered copy of silver lantern, silver threads and sequins. The inscription of the arms of the cross "INS/TI/TU/TOR" gilded. The crowned cipher of the donor Elector Carl Theodor also made of gilded sequins. The elector's hat in raised especially curved embroidery underlaid by purple foil. The star is executed in particularly fine raised silver embroidery of unusual plasticity. On the reverse side completely preserved cover paper. Another embroidered original is in the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt. Nimmergut reproduces a copy from the possession of the Smithonian Institution in Washington D.C. in his Order Handbook. Karsten Klingbeil and Andreas Thies illustrate in their standard work Orden, 1700 - 2000, p. 126 ff. different specimens, among them the piece offered here (No. 355). In the Electoral Palatine Museum of the city of Heidelberg a metal star made of silver and gold is kept. A particularly finely crafted breast star from the hand of the famous Parisian goldsmith Martin Guillaume Biennais is in an important European private collection. In total, no 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 very unsatisfactory according to the age and affects 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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