George Jones Majolica Partridge Tureen/Game Pie Dish, molded with a single partridge nesting among grasses forming the knop, the dish with relief-molded rabbits among green-glazed ferns, grasses, and oak leaves with yellow acorns on a cobalt blue ground, with simulated looped twig handles; impressed marks to reverse include British Registry lozenge for 27 June 1875 (when the design was registered), and George Jones Majolica date code, 'C' for 1877, with painted design number, '3416,' which corresponds to the entry 'Game Pie Dish, L/sm 10 in.; s/s 8 in.' in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers Books preserved in the Wedgwood Archive and reprinted in V. Bergesen.* This design is documented in the Karmeson Library of the Majolica International Society, ID 2783, number KL0004736 with the designation, 'Very Rare.'

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BOOK REFERENCES: *1-Victoria Bergesen, Majolica: British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915. London: Barrie & Jenkins Publishers, 1989, p. 204. George Jones Majolica Pattern Books from the Wedgwood Archive, pp. 201-205.

2-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 Two, p. 248.

3-Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, "Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey." New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Second edition, 2002, p. 100.

4-Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS: 1861 - 1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998, p. 55, Figure 82.