10 May 2006
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Important Worcester Porcelain, The R. David Butti Collection
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Important Worcester Porcelain, The R. David Butti Collection
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A very rare Worcester dessert plate
circa 1772
Decorated in the Giles workshop, the basketweave-moulded lobed border edged with simple dentil gilding, the centre painted in bright colours with birds on a fruiting branch, two kingfishers and a hawk perched on the slender branch among characteristic Giles leaves and ripe peaches, two other birds in flight, 21.3cm (8 3/8in) diam
Decorated in the Giles workshop, the basketweave-moulded lobed border edged with simple dentil gilding, the centre painted in bright colours with birds on a fruiting branch, two kingfishers and a hawk perched on the slender branch among characteristic Giles leaves and ripe peaches, two other birds in flight, 21.3cm (8 3/8in) diam
Sold for
£5,760
inc. premium
Footnotes
- This plate probably formed part of a single service, from which a small number of plates are recorded. One was exhibited by Albert Amor Ltd., Worcester Porcelain from the London Atelier of James Giles, October 1992, fig. JG3. Another was in Amor's exhibition James Giles China Painter, 1977, fig. 22. A third is illustrated by H Rissik Marshall (1954), pl. 31, no. 688. While the small dentil gold border is uncharacteristic, the colourful palette, the curious combination of naturalistic and fancy birds, and the treatment of the leaves and foliage, leaves no doubt about the Giles attribution.
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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