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A fine and extremely rare Dr. Wall
Worcester Coffee Pot and Cover, with scrolled handle and spout, the
feather moulded body beautifully decorated in the London Atelier of James
Giles with a hitherto unrecorded oriental inspired pattern in tones of
iron red and gold with sprays of peonies, grasses, prunus and butterflies.
The porcelain circa 1760
The decoration circa 1765
Height: 10 ins
No marks
From a single service relating to a green and gilt pattern emanating from
the atelier of which there is a coffee cup and saucer in the Coke
collection at the Museum of Worcester porcelain.
A very rare Dr. Wall Worcester Teacup and
Saucer, decorated in the London atelier of James Giles with cloud shaped
panels edged in red containing sprays of European flowers in puce carmine
on a jade green ground gilt with ‘oeil de perdrix’.
c. 1768
Crossed swords and numeral 9 in underglaze blue.
This very rare cup and saucer comes from a single service and is
documentary in the way that it relates to the very earliest patterns
produced in the Giles atelier, tying its decoration in with naturalistic
bird decoration and, in particular, with the celebrated vases and covers
in the Coke Collection within the Dyson Perrins Museum, which show these
same floral sprays in colours upon the shoulder panels of the vases.
See: Gerald Coke ‘In Search of James Giles’ pl. XV1(b).
An extremely rare and highly important First Period Dr. Wall Worcester
Teabowl and Saucer, beautifully decorated in the London atelier of James
Giles with a full naturalistic spray of mimosa in puce, together with
simple sprigs and buds in a sea or slate blue, within a puce line rim.
Circa: 1765-68
No marks
This extremely rare pattern, only the second piece of the undoubtedly
single service so far to be recorded, the other piece another teabowl and
saucer, is in the H.R. Marshall Collection at the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, H.R. Marshall, “Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period”
pl.11 no. 204. It is also illustrated by Gerald Coke, “In Search of James
Giles”, col. Pl. 1(b) No. A.I.410. Essentially, the pattern derives from
Meissen flower painting of the 1740’s, the puce sprays are identical to
sprays found on the rare jade green ground service with these sprays in
cloud shaped reserves, Coke, pl.XV1(b). In turn this, through the simple
oeuil perdrix gilding evident on the jade green ground service, links the
decoration to the celebrated scarlet ground vases in the Coke Collection
in the Dyson Perrins Museum, which, of course, are painted with
naturalistic birds on the front panels, moss roses on the reverse together
with sprigs exactly like these, but in colours within the shoulder
cloud-shaped panels. Through the link to these vases and, therefore, the
type of gilding on blue and green glass scent bottles together with
Chinese porcelain, a date of manufacture can be established.
During this time Giles was not supplied with a steady flow of porcelain
from Worcester, as this was prior to his agreement with the factory
(1767). This can also be noted on the mixed services of Chinese and
Worcester porcelain that exist and survive from this period. Also this can
be corroborated through the link to the Atherton Service, for not only
does that single service contain plain and fluted shapes, see Gerald Coke,
P.227 pl.55(b) for Mr. Coke’s own example of a Coffee Cup and Saucer sold
by this gallery at The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, June 2003,
but through the scale work border links with the Beaumont-Ascough Armorial
Tea Service, Coke p. 200 pl.28(b), through the scale work in the border
around the armorial and also has this type of naturalistic floral sprigs,
but in colours to the border. Exactly the same link therefore, can be made
to the Gavin-Hearsey Dessert Service, Coke p.200 pl.28(a).
Lastly, through this series of links to the floral sprays around the
armorial services, a final link can be made to the rare series of
landscape plates, see ‘Worcester Porcelain the Klepser Collection’ Col.
Pl. 40.
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