European Ceramics - 28th February 2006

Lot 115

A good George Jones Majolica game pie dish

Estimate £8,000 - £12,000 | Hammer £20000

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Description

A good George Jones Majolica game pie dish, the cover with a quail sitting amidst ferns, surrounded by her seven chicks, the sides moulded with rabbits, oak leaves and more ferns, all decorated with coloured Majolica glazes. A short faint body crack. Impressed marks and moulded registration marks for 1873, 35.5cm. (2) Cf. Karmason and Stacke, dust jacket illustration for a similar example.