A George Jones Majolica Tureen with Recumbent Doe, English, ca. 1875
A George Jones Majolica Tureen with Recumbent Doe, English, ca. 1875
A George Jones Majolica Game Pie Tureen, the cover formed as a domed rustic mound with green glazed ferns and grasses, surmounted by a naturalistically molded and glazed recumbent doe, the base encircled with relief-molded images of Artemis, Greek Goddess of the Hunt, with her pack of hounds pursuing a stag among leafy vines glazed in green, on a cobalt blue ground, banded in yellow ochre and brown, the interior glazed in turquoise blue, the reverse glazed in mottled tortoise-shell, with painted design number to the reserve, '3268,' which corresponds to the entry 'Hunter's Scroll Game Pie Dish, Fawn Deer Lid.' as found in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers preserved in the Wedgwood Archives, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, and partially printed in Cluett.*
LITERATURE:
*Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS: 1861 - 1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998, p. 271 (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, Appendix 4, pp. 269-272).
Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Volume One, p. 9, FIG. 14. (Same base with Sportsman lid).
