George Jones Majolica 'Full Nest' Game-Pie Dish, Liner and Cover
Circa 1873
Oval, flanked by oak branch handles with leafy acorn terminals, the cover with a nesting quail among grass, her yellow brood perching and nestling at her side, the tureen molded with a continuous pastoral view of a hare and two bunnies, pink interior fitted with a liner, impressed GJ monogram mark and spoke cypher raised registry diamond (27-F-A-7) for December 27, 1873, black painted shape no. 3371. Width overall 14 1/8 inches.

Literature:
KL000456 Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan. B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989 and 2002, p. 100 and dust jacket covers. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 161, fig. 18.24.

Exhibited:
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 'English Majolica,' January 19-April 11, 1982 (letter and photograph). 'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-676; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.145; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.

Reference:
Victoria Bergesen, Majolica, p. 23, fig. 13. Robert Cluett, George Jones Ceramics, 1861-1951, p. 52, fig. 71 for a trade catalogue circa 1873 featuring this form and Appendix 6, p. 275, patent no. 279437 and p. 55, fig. 81.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

Overall very nice condition; chip to the finial chick's beak, some overpainting to the underside of the cover, near the painter's number five, making it difficult to discern what has been done; a restored rim chip to the liner, and another to the tureen flange; typical staining, crazing and wear to the liner; all three examined under blacklight

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