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Ceramic Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Staffordshire Mug circa late 18th Century
WMLMT Classification:- Mug/Cup
Description
"Inscribed with Masonic symbols and the following ode:
The world is in pain our secrets to gain But still let them wonder and gaze on They can not divine the word or the sign Of a free & an accepted Mason
Pottery has been made in North Staffordshire for at least 600 years. The industry was founded here on local clays and developed because there were large supplies of coal in the area suitable for firing pottery.
During the 18th century a better quality, or whiter, ware was developed by the introduction of ball clay from Devon and the use of calcined flint, and by about 1770 cream-coloured pottery was being made from a body which contained the same materials as the earthenware body of today - ball clay, china clay, flint, and Cornish stone"
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