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Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
An ovoid shaped decanter with bulls eye stopper. Circa 1810
WMLMT Classification:- Decanter
Description
"Date: C 1810.
Origin: English.
Style: Of ovoid shape with three applied rings to the neck which are faceted. The neck between and up to the rim is slice cut. An everted rim. There is engraved an ear of corn and some initials which cannot be deciphered. There is a round sun and within it are engraved a square, a star with a ‘G’ in the middle, a gavel, a level, a trowel, and a stone masons axe. There are no compasses to accompany the square as in the ‘Ancients’ they used a protractor instead and one is depicted. There are slice cuts to the shoulder with gadrooned vertical cuts at the base approximately 3cm high. There is a second round cartouche on the opposite side with a ribbon on top. Within there is a chequared floor, cross keys, a sun with a face, an all seeing eye, seven stars, a moon crescent with a face, two pens in saltire, two pillars with a connecting arch, a square and compasses with a ‘G’ in between.
Stopper: Of target bulls eye form which conforms to the bottle.
Base: Flat. 10.2cm in diameter.
Pontil: Ground out."
Properties
"Height: 27.9cm.
Glass: Clear lead.
Weight: 839 grams with stopper.
Condition: Very good. Wear to the base commensurate with age, A few moth bites to the edge of the stopper. A few minor air bubbles in the stopper."
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