A WORCESTER MASONIC ARMORIAL CABBAGE-LEAF-MOULDED MASK-JUG transfer-printed in black after engravings by James Ross with the arms of The Grand Lodge and Freemason's emblems and with the mottoes AMOR HONOR ET JUSTITIA and SIT LUX ET LUX FUIT flanked by three masons in an Arcadian landscape, the sides within pyramids surmounted by celestial and terrestrial globes in landscape vignettes, the neck with loose bouquets, the interior with a black line beneath the rim and the elaborate scroll handle enriched in black, signed J Rofs Vigornienfis sculp and the side panels J Rofs sculp., circa 1770

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A WORCESTER MASONIC ARMORIAL CABBAGE-LEAF-MOULDED MASK-JUG transfer-printed in black after engravings by James Ross with the arms of The Grand Lodge and Freemason's emblems and with the mottoes AMOR HONOR ET JUSTITIA and SIT LUX ET LUX FUIT flanked by three masons in an Arcadian landscape, the sides within pyramids surmounted by celestial and terrestrial globes in landscape vignettes, the neck with loose bouquets, the interior with a black line beneath the rim and the elaborate scroll handle enriched in black, signed J Rofs Vigornienfis sculp and the side panels J Rofs sculp., circa 1770
21cm. high

拍品專文

James Ross succeeded Robert Hancock's most distinguished pupil Valentine Green, in 1765. He died at Worcester in 1821

The copper-plates of these designs bearing both the full signature and the shorter version are preserved at the Dyson Perrins Museum, see R.L. Hobson, Worcester Porcelain, p. 77

A similar jug is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection, vol. I (1928), p. 138, no. 664. A similarly printed mug, unsigned, was sold in these Rooms on 19 November 1979, lot 134; see also Joseph M. Handley, 18th Century English Transfer-printed Porcelain and Enamels, p. 30, no. 1.17