Description:
Chinese export porcelain oval dish or stand decorated in the 'Giles manner' with a woman carrying flowers in her raised apron in the Famille rose palette of blue, yellow, rose, iron red, brown, green, turquoise, and gilding. The baroque frame and enigmatic black shadow, half buried in the branches, at which the woman looks, were added in England, probably in the London workshop of James Giles (1718-1780) where Chinese as well as European porcelains were decorated in this style. Giles was both a retailor and decorator of porcelains from the 1750s until his bankruptcy in 1776. In 1763, Giles claimed in "The Universal Director" to copy "the Patterns of any China with the utmost exactness, both with respect to the Design and the Colours, either in the European or Chinese taste...." Giles's paintings can be found on many basic types of porcelain - English (mainly Worcester), Chinese, and Continental European - as well as on glass.
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