A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA SWEETMEAT-DISH formed as a young faun kneeling on a mound before a hollow cluster of fern leaves, supporting a turquoise and pink nautilus shell swathed in white drapery on his knee, his head wreathed in fruiting vine and with a ewer and bunches of grapes at his feet, on a waisted turquoise base moulded with berried foliage, between yellow rims, the underside glazed in mottled green and brown (crack to rim of shell pattern number 2282, circa 1865 | Christie's

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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA SWEETMEAT-DISH formed as a young faun kneeling on a mound before a hollow cluster of fern leaves, supporting a turquoise and pink nautilus shell swathed in white drapery on his knee, his head wreathed in fruiting vine and with a ewer and bunches of grapes at his feet, on a waisted turquoise base moulded with berried foliage, between yellow rims, the underside glazed in mottled green and brown (crack to rim of shell pattern number 2282, circa 1865

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A GEORGE JONES MAJOLICA SWEETMEAT-DISH formed as a young faun kneeling on a mound before a hollow cluster of fern leaves, supporting a turquoise and pink nautilus shell swathed in white drapery on his knee, his head wreathed in fruiting vine and with a ewer and bunches of grapes at his feet, on a waisted turquoise base moulded with berried foliage, between yellow rims, the underside glazed in mottled green and brown (crack to rim of shell pattern number 2282, circa 1865
9in. (23cm.) high

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Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, op. cit., p. 90