You’ll find the little fellow at the bottom of a Creamware tankard!
This particular Creamware tankard is thought to date about 1790 – 1800.
Height 14cm (five and a half inches)
Width 11cm (4”)
There is no factory mark.
As you probably know the frog was put inside the tankard to startle the
person drinking from it, which I would imagine would be the Initiate. Such was the practice in 18th century Freemasonry.
The verse on the front is well known and features on a number of ceramics:
The World is in pain
our Secrets to gain
but still let them wonder & gaze on
they never can divine
neither word nor the sign
of a Free and accepted
MASON
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