A good pair of Worcester leaf shaped large dishes

A good pair of Worcester cabbage leaf shaped large dishes, each superbly painted in coloured enamels in the London atelier of James Giles with a cluster of flowers fruits and leaves, including a cut pear and a cut apple, and with scattered flowers and fruits, the handle and rim picked out in gilt, 12 3/4" wide, circa 1765, no marks

See Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles, China and Glass Painter, figure 36, for a similarly decorated junket dish 

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