Lot Details
Lot 1073
George Jones Majolica Castle Tower Cheese Keeper and Stand
Circa 1880
Impressed registry diamond, 19-V-G-5 impressed 1, m, c cyphers, black painted shape no. 3341
Molded as a crenelated castle turret, covered with ivy and ferns, the finial as a light blue pennant. Height 13 1/2 inches; diameter of stand 9 1/2 inches.
Literature:
Darra Goldstein, "Cheese under Cover", Cured, Fall, 2016.
Suzanne Slesin, "Dishing for Compliments", O at Home, Fall 2004, p. 94.
Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, fig. 18.26.
Reference:
Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica, p. 113, fig. 197, for a design drawing of six variant cheese keepers. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 89 for a page from a George Jones & Sons illustrated price list, circa 1873, featuring cheese keepers.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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