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Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
A medium sized ceremonial wine goblet Circa 1800
WMLMT Classification:- Goblet/Glass
Description
"Date: C 1800.
Origin: English.
Style: A large, pointed cup engraved with three different styled oval cartouches and each with a ribbon on top. The first containing a pavement, two pillars with two globes, seven stars and a moon with a man, an open bible, a sun with a face, a ladder. A square and compasses with a feint ‘G’. The second a single letter ’B’. The third a level, a 24 inch gauge, a stylised river, a plumb rule and a level. The bowl is 11.5cm in diameter.
Stem: Bladed knop leading to stub graduated stem.
Base: A fairly scarce square base 1.1cm deep of moulded form with a deep hollow centre.6.3 cm wide."
Properties
"Weight: 379 grams.
Height: 15.4 cm.
Glass: Clear lead.
Condition: Very good. The usual very minor flea bites to the bowl rim. Some chips to the foot. One seems to have been polished out on the corner. A little amount of wear to the base."
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