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See D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 325, fig. 321 for a mug with similar decoration
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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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TWO MASONIC BOWLS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Both painted along the exterior with clusters of Masonic emblems, one below a band of scrolling foliage in colors and gilt, the other with a gilt-starred blue band, both interiors decorated with the 'pillars at the entrance to the Temple of Solomon', in the second flanked by a rayed G in a blue roundel, the rim with four further symbols
9 in. (23 cm. ) diam. (2)
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Both painted along the exterior with clusters of Masonic emblems, one below a band of scrolling foliage in colors and gilt, the other with a gilt-starred blue band, both interiors decorated with the 'pillars at the entrance to the Temple of Solomon', in the second flanked by a rayed G in a blue roundel, the rim with four further symbols
9 in. (23 cm. ) diam. (2)