In early 2026, Nicolas Copernicus University Press in Toruń published a book entitled *Polish Ceramics with Masonic Motifs*.
This is the first, most innovative and only monograph devoted to Polish Masonic ceramics since the founding of the Masonic association in the 18th century.
Outside France, the subject of Masonic ceramics is rarely addressed in international literature, which gives this monograph a unique status on a global scale. Reading the text is facilitated by its bilingual (Polish-English) parallel edition.
For the first time, this monograph presents a broad context regarding the organisation, conduct, restrictions and prohibitions of communal feasts since antiquity, as described in the works of Homer, in Christianity and in medieval guilds, as well as their connection to Masonic agapes. It was for the purposes of these agapes that ceramics with unique decorations were created. Critics have highlighted the high quality of this recommended publication.
The author of the book is Dr Marek Kołyszko, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Faculty of Historical Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The book’s unusual format is identical to the dimensions of 19th-century Masonic publications from Toruń.
The book comprises 216 pages.
