French Large Majolica Chesnut Leaf Platter, circa 1880

French Majolica chesnut leaf plate signed Villeroy & Boch, circa 1890.

Majolica chestnut leaves plate Salins, circa 1880, on a pink background.

George Jones Majolica Maple Leaf and Ferns Plate, English, ca. 1870, the relief molded dish with a central green-glazed maple leaf with ferns on a brown ground, the rim banded in yellow ocher, the reverse glazed in green and brown tortoiseshell mottling, with painted design number to the thumbprint reserve, '2584,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Plate, 'large maple leaf with ferns round' as recorded in the George Jones Majolica Pattern Books partially preserved in the Wedgwood Archives, Victoria and Albert Museum, and reprinted in Cluett. BOOK REFERENCES : Robert Cluett, GEORGE JONES CERAMICS 1861-1951. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1998, p. 270. (George Jones Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 269--270). Nicholas M. Dawes, MAJOLICA. New York: Crown Publishers, 199, p. 121, Figure 211. Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 75. Leslie Bockol, VICTORIAN MAJOLICA. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1996, p. 79. Jeffrey B. Snyder...

A superb antique 19th-Century English majolica leaf plate, platter, or handled dish in soft shades of green, pink, and yellow with a decorative branch handle. This lovely platter dis...