Name

Masonic Sunderland Lustre Plaque

Origin/date 

UK, circa 1820

Material and dimensions

Pottery, 21 cm x 19 cm.

Description

A sunderland pink and copper lustre wall plaque. One masonic transfer printed in black; the other in colors.

The plaque shows Salomon’s temple between two pillars surmounted by globes, flanked by two female figures of Thruth and Justice, and the verse “The world is in pain...” in a reserved panel. All this within an oval frame with Masonic emblems outside forming a rectangular design.

Provenance

UK, John Nicholson Auctioneer, 27 july 2011, lot. 41

Literature

1. 1.The Freemasons’ Hall Duncombe Place, York. A Catalogue of Masonic Pottery, Ben Johnson & Co. Ltd., York, 1951, p. 40-49 (for similar designs).
   

2. 2.Le grand livre illustré du patrimoine maçonnique,    
   

    Paris, Le Cherce midi, 2011, p. 46 (for a similar black       

    transfer).