Gerald Coke notes in his book 'In Search Of James Giles' page 97 that Geoffrey Godden dates the style to post 1780. Sandon also believes this to be the Davis Flight period yet the Godden teapot which we had with this pattern has his label dating it to 1770. The 1774 Christies sale of Giles stock lists lot 4/70 as 'a complete set of tea china in festoon black husks'. So if this style was earlier than some experts had thought it could also have been decorated in all gilt. Another interesting fact regarding Giles was his use of seconds to decorate. It is a known fact that Giles was not a rich man and always struggled to pay his bills, so cheaper seconds that the Worcester factory would have wasted ended up with Giles. A case in point could be this slop bowl, there is a small gilded over flaw to the inner rim. This was obviously an expensive set so why knowing this would the Worcester factory continue with the expensive gilding surely they would have wasted it, or sold the blank to Giles. I make no claims that this is a Giles set but it does set the mind thinking.