A George Jones Pate Box on Stand c.1870. The oval box and stand both with a running band of acanthus and wheat, the body with a turquoise ground, the tray with pink, the turquoise lid surmounted by a partridge lying on a bed of leaves. Although it would The oval box and stand both with a running band of acanthus and wheat, the body with a turquoise ground, the tray with pink, the turquoise lid surmounted by a partridge lying on a bed of leaves. Although it would reasonable to assume by the difference in ground colors of the box and stand that this was a ‘marriage’. In fact several of this design exist with the color mix which leads one to believe that they were sold with a mixture of the pink and turquoise grounds.

Curated and catalogued by Nicolaus Boston