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Author Topic: Greener fox covered sugar with grapes?!  (Read 166 times)

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Offline nicola

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Greener fox covered sugar with grapes?!
« on: May 21, 2025, 01:33:44 PM »
Hi everyone
I bought this Greener fox covered sugar out of curiosity because of the lid - which has grapes on the knop yet the body of the lid is the same as the body of the bowl.
Does anyone know if this is a Frankenstein piece or if it’s just Greener being Greener. Each one has an early lion and star trademark.
I’ve searched my books and it only appears in an early edition of Marking Times without the lid and with a matching jug.
In doing this I realised that while I have Jobling books but I don’t have much about Greener. Has any catalogues surfaced or is it an information black hole?
Many thanks :)

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Re: Greener fox covered sugar with grapes?!
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2025, 09:04:38 PM »
Maybe inspired by Aesop’s fable of the fox and the grapes? That would also explain why the grapes are on the lid and hence out of reach of the fox.

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Re: Greener fox covered sugar with grapes?!
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2025, 10:03:54 AM »
Oh, that would be very clever! I hadn’t even thought of that. Thank you. It would also follow the same pattern as the dogs and cat sugar bowl by Davidson.
I think you solved the mystery!

 

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