A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA OVAL PARTRIDGE GAME-PIE TUREEN AND COVER, the tapering turquoise sides moulded in relief with a frieze of overlapping stiff leaves issuing slender fronds of foliage beneath a yellow ropetwist rim, the cover with a partridge lying on a bed of fronded foliage, with a pink-glazed interior and a green, brown and cream tortoise-shell-glazed base (crack to cover and associated surface chip to glaze on interior, the tureen with chip to ropetwist and crack below, small chips to flange), moulded monogram and script on a shaped lilac pad, circa 1866
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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA OVAL PARTRIDGE GAME-PIE TUREEN AND COVER, the tapering turquoise sides moulded in relief with a frieze of overlapping stiff leaves issuing slender fronds of foliage beneath a yellow ropetwist rim, the cover with a partridge lying on a bed of fronded foliage, with a pink-glazed interior and a green, brown and cream tortoise-shell-glazed base (crack to cover and associated surface chip to glaze on interior, the tureen with chip to ropetwist and crack below, small chips to flange), moulded monogram and script on a shaped lilac pad, circa 1866
11¾in. (30cm.) wide
Lot Essay
A similar example sold in these Rooms, 18 March 1993, lot 181