Period: Late Victorian
Maker: George Jones & Sons
This stylish George Jones trio dates from around 1883. Jones called the distinctive cup shape ‘Garnet.’ It has an elegantly curved profile and a stylish handle. The cup, saucer and tea plate are on-glaze transfer-printed and painted with wild violets. The patters is from an original painting by Horace Overton Jones, the younger son of George Jones and an accomplished painter and designer. His monogram, HOJ, is reproduced on all three pieces.
The bases of the saucer and plate have the impressed GJ monogram with ‘& Sons’ below inside a crescent. There is also a painted pattern number, 6342.
Condition The cup and saucer and are in excellent condition, apart from extremely fine glaze micro-crazing on the cup, noticeable only on close inspection. The plate has a 2.5 cm hairline on the rim and some associated stress lines nearby. There is another 1 cm hairline only in the glaze, plus some surface utensil scratches. The plate still displays very well.
Plate diameter: 17.8 cm
Saucer diameter: 14.4 cm
Cup height 5.8 cm; diameter: 6.8 cm; width across handle: 9.6 cm
Net weight: 488 g
Origin: Stoke on Trent, England
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
