A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA STRAWBERRY-DISH modelled with two large yellow-centred white flowers forming receptacles and flanking a double-loop handle, resting on a trefoil-shaped tray moulded with a large strawberry leaf and pink blossoms and with a turquoise wicker-moulded rim, the underside with a mottled tortoiseshell glaze (restoration to one petal, minute glaze chips), impressed marks, pattern number 324 (indistinct), circa 1876
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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA STRAWBERRY-DISH modelled with two large yellow-centred white flowers forming receptacles and flanking a double-loop handle, resting on a trefoil-shaped tray moulded with a large strawberry leaf and pink blossoms and with a turquoise wicker-moulded rim, the underside with a mottled tortoiseshell glaze (restoration to one petal, minute glaze chips), impressed marks, pattern number 324 (indistinct), circa 1876
11in. (28cm.) long
Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, op. cit., p. 92 and ibid., p. 208; see also Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, (eds.), op. cit., p. 200, for a similar example attributed to Minton