the standing Freemason is holding his index finger before his lips to indicate secrecy, the world is being measured with the compass, the sitting one is spreading two fingers before his eye as the mutual sign of recognition of the Freemasons, both are wearing fur aprons and medals, his pug dog lying at his feet, as a sign of the order of the pug dog, on the plinth there is an angular measure, trowel and triangle, at the side an Ionic capital, on a tree trunk and plinth colourful flower application as well as gold edge, porcelain, colour and gold painted, height 22.5 cm, length 22.5 cm, Meißen, underglaze blue sword mark, around 1850, model number 376, red painter number 74, model by Johann Joachim Kändler 1742 (Ru)

See Lit.:
: Bergmann,1-3000, p 33, cat. no. 1048; in 1738 pope Clemens XIII banned the Freemasons, with the immediate agreement of Saxon Elector and Polish King August III, although his nephew Count Rutowski, son of August the Strong and the Turkish Fatima, had only just established a Freemason lodge in Dresden. The order of the pug dog poked fun at the Freemason order and was intended to amuse the society rather than to entice them to moral and ideal behaviour.