A RARE MASONIC ARMORIAL TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1795

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A RARE MASONIC ARMORIAL TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1795
The arms of the Antients Grand Lodge above the motto Holiness to the Lord and a cluster of mason's tools, the arch above inscribed Cemented with Love
5½ inches (13.9 cm) diameter (2)

来源

The Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 199

出版

D S Howard & J Ayers, China for the West, p. 326: "no other piece of porcelain is recorded with this design"

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The Antients Grand Lodge was founded in 1751 at Turk's Head Tavern in Soho as a rival to the Premier Grand Lodge of England, which the "Antients" or "Ancients" called the "Moderns". The 3rd and 4th Dukes of Atholl served as Grand Masters for its primarily Irish members, also the 6th Earl of Antrim. In 1813 the two rivals merged.