1926/73
Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
A large ceremonial cup shaped drinking glass
WMLMT Classification:- Goblet/Glass
Description
"Date: Early-Mid 1800’s.
Origin: English.
Style: A large cup shaped bowl for ceremonial use. Well engraved with masonic symbols and tools: three lit candles in holders between two pillars, a circular cartouche with a stylistic pavement top and bottom with an amalgam of tool set behind a level being -a pick, square, a skirret, a ladder, and two other implements- two sets of columns and pillars with a domed arch with a king with hands aloft wearing a crown. Another pair of pillars with an alter and square and compasses and bible. A sun above and a moon with a face and seven stars around it. 14cm in diameter.
Stem: Two solid annual cushion knops/rings above a large hollow blown plain bobbin or waisted stem and then two further slightly larger annual rings.
Foot: A plain spread foot-12cm in diameter.
Pontil: Snapped."
Properties
"Height: 21.5cm.
Weight: 1388 grams.
Condition: Excellent condition. No repairs or damage and very little wear to the foot."
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