A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA HARE GAME-PIE TUREEN AND COVER, the turquoise sides moulded in relief with a frieze of hares among bracken and grass and with two double branch-moulded handles with oak-leaf and acorn terminals extending around the rim, the cover with a partridge lying on a bed of overlapping bracken and grass, with a pink-glazed interior and a tortoise-shell-glazed base, impressed monogram within a circle, pattern number 3216, moulded registration mark and date code for 1877
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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA HARE GAME-PIE TUREEN AND COVER, the turquoise sides moulded in relief with a frieze of hares among bracken and grass and with two double branch-moulded handles with oak-leaf and acorn terminals extending around the rim, the cover with a partridge lying on a bed of overlapping bracken and grass, with a pink-glazed interior and a tortoise-shell-glazed base, impressed monogram within a circle, pattern number 3216, moulded registration mark and date code for 1877
13in. (33cm.) wide
Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, op. cit., p. 100 and also the dust cover for a similar model