Rare grand-croix de la légion d'honneur plaque from the Loui - Lot 125

Rare grand-croix de la légion d'honneur plaque from the Louis-Philippe period, beautiful silver and enamel plaque with gold and silver center. Plate with 5 bifid pinnate branches decorated with imbricated tortoiseshell (imitating a semi of sequins), between the branches falling enameled and polychrome tricolor flags and gilded flagpoles. Center with gold profile and senestrogyre laurel of King Henry IV on silver background, gold text enhanced with agate on sandblasted background bearing the text "HONNEUR ET PATRIE" ("HONOR AND REPUBLIC"). Vertical, central and flat back pin, two vertical anti-tilt hooks. (Only 100 recipients, both French and foreign, were elevated to the rank of grand-croix between 1830 and 1848, hence the great rarity of this plaque!) Size 103 mm (Condition 1) Weight XXX grams.