A James Giles Decorated Chinese Porcelain Bowl

The finely fluted bowl incised on the exterior with scrolling lotus

Over decorated in the Japanese style with Oriental figures and formalised flowers

Between Iron Red and Gilt diaper panels

The porcelain C1730/50

The decoration by James Giles C1765/70

Diameter: 4 3/4″ (12.0 cm)

Condition: excellent

There is another example of this decoration in the Ashmolean Museum

Illustrated in ‘James Giles, China and Glass Painter’, Stephen Hanscombe No.95