A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA OVAL GAME-PIE TUREEN AND COVER, the dark-brown ground moulded in high relief on the cover with a brown partridge lying on overlapping ferns, the tapering dish moulded around the sides with overlapping leaves and ferns beneath a yellow line rim, the interior glazed in pink and the underside with a tortoise-shell glaze (small chip to foot-rim), circa 1866
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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA OVAL GAME-PIE TUREEN AND COVER, the dark-brown ground moulded in high relief on the cover with a brown partridge lying on overlapping ferns, the tapering dish moulded around the sides with overlapping leaves and ferns beneath a yellow line rim, the interior glazed in pink and the underside with a tortoise-shell glaze (small chip to foot-rim), circa 1866
11in. (28cm.) wide
Lot Essay
A similar example sold in these Rooms, 18 March 1993, lot 181