2013/8
Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
An Early Victorian trumpet shaped drinking glass.
WMLMT Classification:- Goblet/Glass
Description
"Date: Early Victorian.
Origin: English.
Style: A very elegant trumpet shaped drinking glass with the bowl and stem all in one -no joins. The bowl internally forms to a rounded point. The bowl is profusely engraved finely with two keys in saltire, a trowel, a moon with seven stars around it, two pillars with three mounted crosses with a square and compasses on top of what appears to be a mausoleum with an aperture. There is a horseshoe shaped arch with a key stone with a three tiered alter with an eye above. Adjoining it is another arched open mausoleum showing a coffin with crossed bones and what may be a stylised skull with bones surrounding the coffin. All of the above decoration is on top of a band printie oval cuts. Lower down there is another series of circular and dash printie cuts. The bowl is 6.3cm in diameter.
Stem: Plain tapering and solid flowing from the bowl. There is a basal cushion knop.
Foot: Conical shaped 6.5cm in diameter.
Pontil: Roughly ground out and not polished."
Properties
"Glass: Clear soda.
Weight: 156 grams.
Condition: Excellent condition with no damage or repairs."
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