Lot 595
595
A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA JUG AND PEWTER-MOUNTED COVER with a fox finial and angular handle formed as a crop bound with white rope, the dark-blue body moulded with a hound stalking a bird among grass and a fox preying upon a rabbit in a lair, within turquoise oval cartouches edged with linked yellow chains and horizontal bands of leaves, the neck with formal scrolling foliage and white flowers (cover repaired, crack to base, glaze crack to fox's nose on side), printed registration mark and date code for 1872

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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA JUG AND PEWTER-MOUNTED COVER with a fox finial and angular handle formed as a crop bound with white rope, the dark-blue body moulded with a hound stalking a bird among grass and a fox preying upon a rabbit in a lair, within turquoise oval cartouches edged with linked yellow chains and horizontal bands of leaves, the neck with formal scrolling foliage and white flowers (cover repaired, crack to base, glaze crack to fox's nose on side), printed registration mark and date code for 1872
11¾in. (30cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, op. cit., p. 90 for a page taken from L. Jewitt, Ceramic Art of Great Britian, 1883, illlustrating wares by George Jones.
A similar example sold in these Rooms, 29 October 1992, lot 246

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