A Worcester square dish

A Worcester concave sided square dish, painted en grisaille in the London atelier of James Giles with an urn, with two serpent handles, garlanded with coloured flowers and leaves, within a gilt anthemion roundel, the powder blue ground with a band of scrolling gilt vines, gilt line rim, 7 3/4" square, circa 1770-75, underglaze blue crescent mark

Provenance; Alfred Trapnell Collection, sold Christies, London, 7th July 1899, lot 322

See Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles, China and Glass Painter, figure 85 for a similar larger dish 

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