A Chinese export ware gilt-edged tea-bowl and saucer, possibly London decorated in the atelier of James Giles, in the Teniers style and painted with a man playing a violin and smoking a pipe, the porcelain Qianlong period 18th century, the English decoration circa 1768. Provenance: Robert Burke collection no 231/233. A service in this pattern was supplied made up from from Worcester and Chinese porcelain. See the Worcester cup with Chinese saucer in the Marshall collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford, illustrated in Marshall H Rissik, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, 1751-1783 colour plate 9. 12 cm diameter