拍品 54
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A Worcester turquoise-ground coffee-cup and saucer

CIRCA 1770, THE SAUCER WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND 9 MARK

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A Worcester turquoise-ground coffee-cup and saucer
Circa 1770, the saucer with blue crossed swords and 9 mark
Decorated in the atelier of James Giles with exotic birds perched on branches within shaped turquoise borders edged with gilt foliage and with flower-sprays, beneath gilt rims

拍品專文

Cf. Simon Spero, op. cit., no. 152 and col. pl. 43 for a teacup and saucer decorated with the same pattern; Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles (1983), col. pl. XII; see also the trio sold in these Rooms, 20 October 1969, lot 309.