Majolica game pie dishes represent the varied and conflicting Victorian ideals of nature, with imagery addressing science, morality, and mortality. Today, such seemingly quotidian and casual scenes of death seem odd and even distasteful, especially in the domestic space. However, these majolica game pie dishes draw upon the society’s rhetoric of death, intimately connected with science and morality, which sought to understand the individual’s place in the world. Minton & Co.’s game pie dish features a hyper-realistic depiction of a rabbit, mallard, and crow alongside ferns, oak leaves, and acorns, all rendered in naturally-colored majolica glazes, speaking not only to the dish’s contents but also to a culture in which everything had a natural order.