Staffordshire Green Transfer Ware Round Serving Bowl

George Jones and Sons

Rhapsody

Circa 1921-33

This serving bowl depicts a pastoral scene of two women carrying sheaves of wheat overhead, a young boy and dog walking along a path overlooking the men working in the fields gathering hay below. There is a church in the distant background.

The company began operation in c.1864 at Stoke Upon Trent at the Trent Potteries Works as George Jones and in 1873 became George Jones & Sons Ltd. They produced gorgeous majolica and earthen wares.
In 1907 the works was renamed Crescent Potteries.
George Jones died in 1893.

Measures appx 8" round x 2 3/4" deep
Condition: There is a little typical crazing present.  

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