Chinese Export-Ware Sparrow-Beak Cream Jug with Exotic Birds
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A Chinese export-ware sparrow-beak cream jug and cover, possibly London decorated in the atelier of James Giles, painted with exotic birds in landscape, the porcelain Qianlong period, 18th century. Provenance: Robert Burke collection. Reference: It is recorded that Worcester and Chinese porcelain was supplied to clients of the James Giles London atelier. See the Worcester cup with Chinese saucer in the Marshall collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford, illustrated in 'Marshall H Rissik, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, 1751-1783 colour plate 9. 13 cm high
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- Atelier - Atelier (French for "workshop"), in English usuage describes the workshop of an artist in the fine or decorative arts, where the artist and a number of assistants, students and apprentices worked together producing pieces that went out in the artists name. This was the standard practice for European artists from the Middle Ages to the 18th or 19th century
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