Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Mug with Masonic Order of the Eastern Star Emblem
1980-2016
Maker not marked
USA
Stoneware, enamel
overall: 3-1/4"h x 4-1/2"w at handle x 3-1/2"d
Gift of Judith A. Sharos
2016.059.2

Mug with Masonic Order of the Eastern Star Emblem. Cream-colored stoneware mug with clear glaze and curved handle to PL of front of mug. Sides flare very slightly towards rim. Front features emblem, in multicolored enamel, of the Order of the Eastern Star: a five-point star outlined in black, each point infilled with a different color (clockwise from PR top, red, blue, yellow, white and green) and featuring a different symbol (respectively, a chalice, a sword and veil, a sheaf of barley, a crown and sceptre, and a broken column. In center of star is a pentagon outlined with double black lines, with a smaller light blue pentagon featuring an altar with open bible in the middle. Around this, from top, are the black letters "F A T A L". Impressed on bottom, "U S A".