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A rare Beilby enamelled Masonic firing glass for the Ancient Operative Lodge in Dundee, circa 1765
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A rare Beilby enamelled Masonic firing glass for the Ancient Operative Lodge in Dundee, circa 1765
With a deceptive ogee bowl, enamelled in opaque white with a calligraphic inscription 'Antient (sic) Operative Lodge DUNDEE', on a short double series opaque twist stem and a heavy terraced 'firing' foot, 9.8cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Peter Lazarus Collection, Christie's sale 26 November 1991, lot 133
With Mallett & Son
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection
Literature
E.M. Elville, English Table Glass (1951), pl.114
James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.98, no.61
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 8
Established in the 12th century, the earliest known reference to the Masonic Lodge in Dundee is 1536. The Ancient Operative Lodge was Chartered in 1745 as Lodge No. 52 and in that year a Masonic Temple was built opposite Thorter Row. The Dundee Lodge was subsequently re-numbered as 47 on the Roll of the Grand Lodge. The temple was demolished in 1964.