Self-styled pseudo-chivalric order breast star https://asiamedals.info/threads/self-styled-or-pseudo-chivalric-orders.30194/ from 1850-1863 time period made by Lemaitre workshop https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-made-by-lemaitre-paris.27814/#post-375259.
Silver, gold, gilt, enamel.
Size 81 x 81 mm.
Nihil est triste recepto - Nothing is sad once it has been received/Nothing is bitter once accepted.
Workshop plaque.
Originally Blood of Jesus Christ, or Blood of Christ, was a military order instituted at Mantua by Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, approved on 25 May 1608 by Pope Paul V. The motto of the order was Domine probasti me, or that Nihil hoc triste recepto. Jean Hermant speaks of the order and observes that it took its name from drops of the blood of Jesus, said to have been preserved in Saint Andrew's Basilica in Mantua. Their number was restricted to twenty besides the Grand Master; the office whereof was attached to himself and his successors. The badge of the Order, made of gold, hanged from this collar and showed two angels holding a reliquary with three drops of Christ's blood in it. The insignia had the motto "Nihil est triste recepto".
Silver, gold, gilt, enamel.
Size 81 x 81 mm.
Nihil est triste recepto - Nothing is sad once it has been received/Nothing is bitter once accepted.
Workshop plaque.
Originally Blood of Jesus Christ, or Blood of Christ, was a military order instituted at Mantua by Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, approved on 25 May 1608 by Pope Paul V. The motto of the order was Domine probasti me, or that Nihil hoc triste recepto. Jean Hermant speaks of the order and observes that it took its name from drops of the blood of Jesus, said to have been preserved in Saint Andrew's Basilica in Mantua. Their number was restricted to twenty besides the Grand Master; the office whereof was attached to himself and his successors. The badge of the Order, made of gold, hanged from this collar and showed two angels holding a reliquary with three drops of Christ's blood in it. The insignia had the motto "Nihil est triste recepto".