A Large George Jones Majolica Cheese Bell With Daisys, Bees and Fence, Ca. 1878

Description

A Large George Jones Majolica Cheese Bell and Stand, rendered as a beautiful summer's day, the domed lid and stand … more A Large George Jones Majolica Cheese Bell and Stand, rendered as a beautiful summer's day, the domed lid and stand with a rustic fence and relief-molded daisies, wheat sheaves, and green-glazed leaves against a turquoise blue sky with bees, the branch-form handle with naturalistically molded and glazed blackberries and blossoms, the interior glazed in pink/lavender, the reverse glazed in tortoiseshell mottling with impressed factory date code 9D for September 1878.
Of the two sizes produced, this is the larger.
LITERATURE:
Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS: 1861 - 1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998, p.69, Figure 129 (photo of the smaller size). less