An Extremely Rare Chinese Export 'Order of the Cincinnati' Platter, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1785 | 清乾隆 約1785年 青花粉彩描金「辛辛那提協會」盤

painted in the center with a figure of Fame holding aloft the badge of the Society of the Cincinnati

length 10 1/2 in.; 26.7 cm

Purchased by Henry ? Light-Horse Harry? Lee (later father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee) for George Washington and himself, August 1 786;

Private Collection, Ohio;

Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 January 1976, lot 153;

Collection of H. Richard Dietrich, by 1983;

Dietrich American Foundation;

Elinor Gordon, Villanova, 1994.

The China Trade Museum, Milton;

Department of State Rooms, Washington DC.