Highly Significant Unrecorded Chinese Export American Market Masonic Subject Punch Bowl, likely made for a Washington, D.C. Lodge

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Highly Significant Unrecorded Chinese Export American Market Masonic Subject Punch Bowl, likely made for a Washington, D.C. Lodge ca. 1790-1800; bearing on one side a shield with various Masonic symbols inscribed MEMENTO MORI with a bottom scrolling banner inscribed AMOR HONOR ET JUSTITIA, and on the verso bearing a coat of arms inscribed with motto May the Patriotic Lodge Forever Flourish; decorated with cobalt blue trellis and spearhead underglazed border; diameter: 11 in.

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