
A Rare Pair of London Decorated Chinese Tea Bowls C1758-63 Probably James Giles
Decorated in iron red with figures in a landscape
Gilt border to inner rim and band to foot
Probably in the workshop of James Giles
C1758-63
Diameter: 2 7/8″ (7.3 cm)
Condition: gilding with wear, tiny bruise to rim of one tea bowl
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.’