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Ceramic Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Staffordshire Creamware 6½” Jug circa 1800
WMLMT Classification:- Jug
Description
"The jug is decorated with Masonic symbolism, plus a shield containing 3 towers, with a chevron containing an extended pair of compasses, surmounted with a bird, and supported on either side by a dog, with the meaning RELIEF AND TRUTH.
Creamware is a cream-coloured refined earthenware with a lead glaze over a pale body, created about 1750 by the potters of Staffordshire, England, who refined the materials and techniques of salt-glazed earthenware towards a finer, thinner, whiter body with a brilliant glassy lead glaze
It proved so ideal for domestic ware that it supplanted white salt-glaze wares by about 1780, and was popular until the 1840s."
Properties
6½” HP
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