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Dish and cover

George Jones & Sons, Ltd., active 1861 – 1951ca. 1875

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Oval, flat-based dish (a). Sides tapered toward lip, molded with swagged nets alternating with game trophies. At edge of base and lip molded ochre-glazed twisted-rope border. Ground glazed brown, with molded motifs picked out in yellow, white, blue, and brown. Interior glazed with bright mauve; underside mottled green and brown. Oval cover (b) glazed mauve on underside. Exterior molded with central finial in form of a fox on fern fronds and a dead duck. Cover in polychrome colors as on base.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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