Stunning 1918 Hopewell Lodge Masonic Silk Ribbon Quilt with Red Crosses (Delicate) candlestick with light crazing to the

with light crazing to the glaze on the interior and a bit of undulation to the lip

with faces and bodies from classical sculpture and winged angels swooping in amid "objective" anatomical diagrams

Really a great duck

thus yielding wonderfully inky pools of saturated color around its shoulders and neck

Stunning 1918 Hopewell Lodge Masonic Silk Ribbon Quilt with Red Crosses (Delicate) candlestick with light crazing to theYears ago, I would occasionally find golden cigar silk quilts, which sadly have since become some precious I can never nab them anymore. But even better to my eye, here a little "quilt" made of white silk ribbons with red crosses, stitched together to form a sort of checkerboard of crosses. The ribbons are masonic, produced on the occasion of the 6th Annual Colonial Ball at the Hopewell Lodge, Feb 22, 1915. (F. and A. M stands for Free and Accepted