Masonic Dram Glass

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Object Name: 
Masonic Dram Glass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
51.2.156
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.8 cm; Rim Diam: 6.6 cm; Base Diam: 5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1765-1770
Primary Description: 
Colorless, presumably lead glass; blown and enameled. Waisted form with base nearly 1/2" (1.3 cm) thick; rough pontil mark; enameled decoration: opaque white honeysuckle and leaf circlet at top below rim; Masonic emblems in red and yellow on sides -- obverse, radiant sun within triangle formed by open compass and ruler, sprays of white leaves at left and right of compass; at right, key at end of tiny white-bead chain depending from leaf in circlet at top, spray of white leaves; at left, open compass at end of tiny white-bead chain depending from leaf; reverse, at end of similar chain, rule, square, trowel and hammer, spray of white leaves.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1951-04-11
Davis, Cecil, Former Collection
Color: 
opaque white glass
colorless
red
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
enameling
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (3)

The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby
Venue(s)
Laing Art Gallery 1980-09-05 through 1980-10-31
East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
 
Title Unknown (Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia)
Venue(s)
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1948-11 through 1948-11

Publications (4)

The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby, 1761-1778 (1980) p. 14 (#72); BIB# 22578
The Ingenious Beilbys (1973) illustrated, p. 113, pl. 65; p. 63; BIB# 27395
Treasures in Glass (1966) p. 51, #88; BIB# 28036
Beilby Glass in America Including Some Recent Discoveries (1951-06) fig. VIII; BIB# AI46083