A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA FRUIT-DISH of leaf shape, the handle modelled as a Bacchanalian putto wreathed with vine, squeezing grapes into his mouth and holding a cup in his right hand, scantily clad in a spotted drape and lying against a sack supported on a stack of branches with flowering terminals, the dish moulded with two large overlapping leaves within a yellow line rim, the underside with a tortoise-shell glaze, impressed registration mark and number 24, date code for 1869

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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA FRUIT-DISH of leaf shape, the handle modelled as a Bacchanalian putto wreathed with vine, squeezing grapes into his mouth and holding a cup in his right hand, scantily clad in a spotted drape and lying against a sack supported on a stack of branches with flowering terminals, the dish moulded with two large overlapping leaves within a yellow line rim, the underside with a tortoise-shell glaze, impressed registration mark and number 24, date code for 1869
10¼in. (26cm.) wide

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