A rare Worcester coffee cup and saucer from the Lord Dudley service circa 1765-68

decorated in the workshop of James Giles, the powder blue ground reserved with fan-shaped panels painted with European figures of musicians and female dancers, small circular panels in between painted with colourful insects, a fruit spray inside the base of the cup and the centre of the saucer, the rims gilded with flower sprays and dentil borders,

English Ceramics Circle Exhibition, 1948, no. 442

Saucer: the underside has a hairline crack running from the rim for approx. 2.3cms. This is not visible on the decorated surface. The underside has some fire specking. Cup: there is a very shallow chip to the footrim approx. 2mm wide.
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A sugar bowl and cover from The Lord Dudley service is in the Ashmolean Museum and was exhibited at Stockspring Antiques, 2005, see exhibition catalogue, James Giles by Stephen Hanscombe, no. 90.  For a bowl from the same service see In Search of James Giles by Gerald Coke, 1983, plate 45a, p.217