A George Jones Majolica Kingfisher on Lily Pad Luncheon Tray, the trefoil dish naturalistically molded as a lily pad and blossoms with cattails, with a colorfully glazed model of a kingfisher with a fish in its beak, the raised base formed as cattails and blossoms, the reverse with impressed monogram 'GJ & Sons' in a crescent moon.
This design is included in the Karmason Stacke Library of the Majolica International Society, number KL000054, and is designated 'Rare.'
English, ca. 1875
LITERATURE:
Robert E. Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS: 1861 - 1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998, p.54, Figure 79.
A George Jones Majolica Kingfisher on Lily Pad Luncheon Tray, the trefoil dish naturalistically molded as a lily pad and blossoms with cattails, with a colorfully glazed model of a kingfisher with a fish in its beak, the raised base formed as cattails and blossoms, the reverse with impressed monogram 'GJ & Sons' in a crescent moon.
This design is included in the Karmason Stacke Library of the Majolica International Society, number KL000054, and is designated 'Rare.'
English, ca. 1875
LITERATURE:
Robert E. Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS: 1861 - 1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998, p.54, Figure 79.
