CIRCA 1770, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND 9.

A Giles-decorated part-service of twenty-three pieces of Chinese and Worcester porcelain was sold at Puttick & Simpson, 2 April 1963. Nine of the pieces were Worcester porcelain, including: a milk-jug, sugar-bowl, slop-basin and six coffee-cups. The Chinese elements comprised a tea canister, nine teabowls and four saucers. The present slop-basin and the following five lots are likely to be from this service. The milk-jug and cover from this set, formerly in the Thomas Ernest Inman collection and later in the R. David Butti collection was sold Bonham's London, 10 May 2006, lot 59. The sugar-bowl bowl from the service was in the Mrs R. M. Robertson collection exhibited by Albert Amor, London, 'Treasures from Toronto', 1993, fig. 43. Cups and saucers from this service appear in several collections, for examples see See Stephen Hanscombe, The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibtion at Stockspring Antiques, London, 5-17 June 2008, cat. nos. 115-118.

A similar part service, formerly in the Harrow Bunn collection and now in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen, at Sandringham House, Norfolk, comprises a teapot and cover, milk-jug and cover, slop-basin and five cups and saucers.

A teapot and cover fomerly in the Mr. J. Cheetham Cockshut collection sold Christie's London, 23 March 1909, lot 6 and subsequently in the Frank Lloyd collection is illustrated by Aileen Dawson, The Art of Worcester Porcelain 1751-1788, Masterpieces from the British Museum collection, London, 2007, pp. 222-3, no. 93.