A George Jones majolica 'Fox' game pie-dish and cover with recumbant fox finial, the body moulded in relief with hanging game and classical devices between netting swags on a turquoise ground within rope-twist borders, the interior painted in purple, the cover moulded with ferns and branches (minor repair to finial) impressed mark, pattern no. 2262, circa 1865 -- 10¼in.wide

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A George Jones majolica 'Fox' game pie-dish and cover with recumbant fox finial, the body moulded in relief with hanging game and classical devices between netting swags on a turquoise ground within rope-twist borders, the interior painted in purple, the cover moulded with ferns and branches (minor repair to finial) impressed mark, pattern no. 2262, circa 1865 -- 10¼in.wide

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