A Rare London Decorated Chinese Tea Caddy C1758-63 Probably James Giles

Decorated in iron red with figures in a landscape

Gilt border to rim and band to foot

Probably in the workshop of James Giles

C1758-63

Height: 4 1/8″ (10.3 cm)

Condition: perfect

Stephen Hanscombe ‘James Giles, China and Glass Painter 1718-80’ illustrates a coffee cup from this service, no. 105

And writes ‘The Chinese coffee cup painted with a continuous watery scene in iron red has gilding strongly

Associated with the Giles workshop, and may be a survivor from a Giles service with this rare decoration.’