Sale 6084
London
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18 May 1999
Price realised
GBP 2,185
Estimate
A Worcester coffee-cup, teabowl and saucer Circa 1770, the saucer with blue crossed swords and 9 mark Painted in the atelier of James Giles with specimen birds perched on trailing branches between gilt line rims (the saucer with glaze blemish between bird's legs, and minute rubbing to gilt rim of saucer) (3)
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Cf. Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles (1983), p. 191, pl. 19a.
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