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Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (1989), p. 97 for a cheese bell of similar design
Details
A George Jones majolica bottle cooler
moulded with a continuous underwater frieze of fish among seaweed above hermit crabs on rockwork, below gulls in flight, impressed crescent mark, shape 5247, moulded registration lozenge for 1880 (cracks to rim and star crack to base) -- 16.5cm. high
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moulded with a continuous underwater frieze of fish among seaweed above hermit crabs on rockwork, below gulls in flight, impressed crescent mark, shape 5247, moulded registration lozenge for 1880 (cracks to rim and star crack to base) -- 16.5cm. high
See colour plate 3
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