Description:
Chinese export porcelain cream pot with a coil handle decorated with exotic birds in a landscape in green, red, pink, brown, yellow, black, and blue in the 'Giles manner', probably in the London workshop of James Giles (1718-1780). 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. Certain types of decoration are usually associated with the Giles workshop. Those types include the broadly painted, imaginary birds in fantastic landscapes, such as on this pot, which are today referred to as Exotic, Fabulous, Dishevelled, Aggressive or Agitated. These birds were derived from French Rococo design and also appear on carved furniture, embroidery, wallpaper and plasterwork of the period.
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