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Tankard with Solomon's Temple and Masonic Symbols and frog inside
1807-1813
John Phillips & Company
UK: England, Bishopswearmouth, Sunderland
Transfer-printed creamware
overall: 6"h x 4-3/4"w
Special Acquisitions Fund
87.28

Masonic mug; transfer print, in black design of Solomon's Temple; other Masonic symbols include figures, all-seeing eye, square and compasses, crossed keys, level, Bible, others; in center "The World is in Pain / Our Secrets to Gain / But Still let them wonder and gaze / They ne'er can divine the word nor the sign / Of a free and Accepted / Mason"; signed on bottom "J Phillips & Co Sunderland Potery" (sic); black banding on top rim; inside, a molded frog painted green and orange.


For further information, see Hamilton, John D., "Material Culture of the American Freemasons," 1994, p. 217-218.



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