Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (1989), p. 89 for pages from the George Jones & Son pattern books showing this design.
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A George Jones majolica pale-blue-ground honey pot and cover
the domed cover with bound twig finial, issuing blossom, the cylindrical pot with a basket-weave moulded section, with lilac interior, on a fixed stand moulded with tailing blossom, shape 3306, impressed numerals and letters, impressed monogram and crescent mark, circa 1875 (crack and chipped to rim of pot) -- 13cm. high
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the domed cover with bound twig finial, issuing blossom, the cylindrical pot with a basket-weave moulded section, with lilac interior, on a fixed stand moulded with tailing blossom, shape 3306, impressed numerals and letters, impressed monogram and crescent mark, circa 1875 (crack and chipped to rim of pot) -- 13cm. high
See illustration
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