A George Jones Majolica Server with Mounted Thrush, English, ca. 1872
A George Jones Majolica Server with Mounted Thrush, English, ca. 1872
A George Jones Majolica Tray, the shaped dish with relief-molded leaves and ferns, with branches laden with orange blossoms, surmounted with a single naturalistically molded and glazed thrush, the reverse glazed in green and brown tortoiseshell mottling, with impressed marks, 'GJ' monogram, and British Registry diamond for 29 May 1872, with painted design number the thumbprint reserve, '2556,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Strawberry dish, oval bracket shape with leaves and blossoms on a turquoise ground' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books partially preserved in the Wedgwood Archives, Victoria and Albert Museum, World of Wedgwood, Barlaston, England, and reprinted in Cluett. Cluett, p. 270. and illustrated on page 53, Figure 76.