A MASONIC PUNCHBOWL

CIRCA 1760

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A MASONIC PUNCHBOWL
Circa 1760
Painted in the center with the arms of the Masons Company in gilt, black and iron-red beneath a gilt floral vine border, the front with a finely painted scene of the three 'Grand Masters' examining plans for the temple, their tools in the foreground, all within an oval flanked by floral vine-entwined columns suspending further Masonic emblems and above another Masons Company coat-of-arms, a large cluster of pink and purple roses on the back
11in. (29.2cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For an identical bowl from the Mottahedeh Collection see D.S. Howard and J.S. Ayers, op. cit., no. 318, where the authors note that these arms were adopted by the premier Grand Lodge of England between 1717 and 1813.

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