BOSTON — On June 4, Grogan & Company conducted the sale of the Jason King Binder collection of Chinese export porcelain, a “culmination of over 40 years of passionate collecting and scholarship,” the auction catalog noted. Featuring more than 200 lots, the collection encompassed Chinese export porcelain made for the American market spanning the Eighteenth through the early Twentieth Centuries, and included rare armorial wares, grisaille enamels and objects connected to prominent American families and historical figures. One such object was the top lot of the sale, a “rare and exceptional” circa 1785 Order of the Cincinnati plate, which belonged to a service owned by George Washington. Featuring a scalloped rim, the plate bore the Order of the Cincinnati badge, designed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, with a hovering personification of Fame blowing her trumpet. Its Fitzhugh border was decorated with gilt rim and cobalt blue and had geometric, butterfly and floral motifs. More than doubling its $30/50,000 estimate, the plate made a presidential $137,500, including buyer’s premium. Additional highlights from this sale will be featured in an upcoming issue.
