Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Three Masonic Candlestands
1801-1900
Maker not marked
USA: Rhode Island, Newport
Wood; silver; paint
overall: 42-1/2"h x 9"w x 9"d
Gift of St. John's No. 1 A. F. & A. M. and the Masonic Corporation of Newport, Rhode Island
93.038a-c

Three Masonic Candlestands; "Lesser Lights"; matching floor candlestands of turned, dark stained wood with vasiform shafts and triple-stepped bases; Sheffield plated silver bobeches; original sketch of construction penciled on bottom of one base.

The candlestands were used in St. John's Lodge No. I, A.F. & A,M, in Newport, Rhode Island. The set constitutes the "Three Lights in Masonry," as used in the Lodge and placed east, west and south of the altar. For further information, see Hamilton, John D., "Material Culture of American Freemasons," 1994, p. 77-78.