George Jones Majolica Lotus Plate, naturalistically molded as overlapping lily pads and lotus leaves, with a central relief-molded pink and yellow lotus flower on turquoise-glazed water, the reverse glazed in tortoiseshell mottling, with impressed British Registry Diamond for 9 March 1869. The design was patented on 1 December 1869 as 'LOTUS,' Patent number 236756. Documented in the Karmason Library of the Majolica International Society, Number KL001702, with the designation 'Rare.' For thirty years we have been among the preeminent specialists in fine antique majolica. Book reference: Robert E. Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS: 1861 - 1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998, p. 40 (color photo).