Each of oblong section facetted, the larger blue glass bottle painted in polychrome enamel with villages scenes and birds on one side, and large flower spray on the other, the gold stopper with festoons, the smaller green glass bottle painted with a maiden and a village beyond, the other side with flower spray, the gold stopper with geometrical motifs
3¹⁄₈ in. (8 cm.) and 2¹⁄₂ in. (6.5 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Zurich, 14 November 1979, lot 287 (green bottle).

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James Giles (1718–1780) was a well known decorator of Worcester, Derby, Bow and Chelsea porcelain as well as glass. The latter which he never mentioned in his advertisements despite amounting to a fifth of his workshop’s output, consisted of glassware of great variety in shape, size and colour gilded and enamelled in the most original and distinctive way.