Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry

A Mid-late 20th. Century wide ogee shaped wine glass

WMLMT Classification:- Goblet/Glass

Description

"Date: Mid-late 20th. Century.

Origin: English.

Style: A wide mouthed ogee shaped bowl engraved and etched with two columns, crossed keys, a shovel and a pick crossed, an open bible with a square and compasses on top. A beehive with bees flying around. Two feather pens in saltire. Two unknown crossed tools possibly crow bars. Then a level with numerous tools sticking out of it-a gavel, a maul, square, ladder, crow bars. Below all that there is engraved a chequered floor band. This glass design is in the early 19th century style and of good quality.

Stem: Short with a flattened medial knop leading to a swollen wide basal knop attached to the foot.

Foot: Square with chamfered edges to the horizonal edges but not to the vertical corner edges. 5.9cm wide.0.9cm thick. Slight hollowing"