Code: FA1495
A lovely majolica sardine box and cover by George Jones & Sons, with a fabulous lilac pink colourway with jade green, chartreuse and a silver-grey. Modelled with three sardines laying across the cover in a bed of seaweed. The box has a moulded border of stylised seaweed running around the base. Rope twist effect rims coloured in an ochre yellow enamel. The base with the clear unmottled section, over-painted in black with the model number 1805, a characteristic identifier unique to George Jones majolica.
Reference: George Jones Ceramics by Cluett, Figure 109.
It measures 15cm (5 7/8") by 12.8cm (5") wide and 9cm (3 1/2") high.
In excellent condition with no damage repair or restoration and minimal handling wear. The inside has some fine natural crazing from manufacture.
