George Jones Majolica Birds-on-Trellis Strawberry Service, Complete, ca. 1875
George Jones Majolica Birds-on-Trellis Strawberry Service, Complete, ca. 1875
George Jones Majolica Strawberry Server, molded as a rustic trough of curved staves and naturalistically glazed with strawberry plants, the removable cream and sugar bowls modelled as tubs, the handle formed as a trellis overgrown with fruiting strawberry plants and surmounted at each end by a pair of blue, green, and yellow-glazed blue tits, the reverse with impressed marks 'GJ' monogram, British Registry Diamond for February 9, 1875, and painted design number 3423; with three ladles: the strawberry, cream and sugar (perforated), each molded as overlaping green-glazed strawberry leaves and mounted with a single strawberry blossom. Usually illustrated with multi-purpose ladles lacking the strawberry blossom, these are the correct ones for this rare and compete set.
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BOOK REFERENCES:
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. 63, FIG. 2.56. Marilyn G. Karmason and Joan B. Stake, MAJOLICA: A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York: Harry Abrams Publishers, 1989, illustrated, p. 92.
Nicholas M. Dawes, MAJOLICA, New York: Crown Publishers, 1990, p. 118. (full-page color photo).
Robert E. Cluett, George Jones Ceramics: 1861-1951, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998, p. 64 (color photo).