George Jones Majolica Partridge and Chicks Game Pie Dish

Victorian, circa 1873. 8.7ins high, 14.2ins wide, 9.3ins depth. George Jones Majolica game pie dish which features features a partridge on a nest of grasses and ferns, with seven chicks.

One chick is sat on its mother's back, and another is tucked under her wing.

The dish with grazing rabbits to the sides.

Turquoise ground version. Colouration: turquoise, green, yellow, are predominant.

Bears a pattern number, '3368'. English diamond registration mark for the date 17/12/1873.

Similar piece illustrated on front cover, 'The Collectors Encyclopedia of Majolica' by Mariann Katz-Marks. Also illustrated figure 81, page 55, Schiffer's 'George Jones Ceramics 1861-1951' by Robert Cluett.

Condition

CONDITION: Good. Cover: RESTORATION. Filled rim chip.

Stabilised and retouched hairline to rim.

Filled chip to one chick's beak and tip of partridge beak.

Dish: Bruise to inner rim.

RESTORATION. Filled chips to inner rim.

Filled chip to handle. Very light, fully stabilised hairline to one handle, left un-painted over because we felt uneccessary and would detract.

A few retouched flakes to the foliage.

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