A Chinese porcelain English-decorated saucer and a Worcester teabowl 18th century

A Chinese porcelain English-decorated saucer and a Worcester teabowl 18th century, the saucer originally plain, both now printed in black with the 'Peeping Tom' pattern, a shepherd spying on a courting couple from behind a tree, the lady feeding grapes to her sweetheart while their dog sleeps unaware, 11.7cm. (2)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 836. Purchased from Errol Manners, May 2001. Previously in the Norman Stretton Collection, Phillips, 21st February 2001, lot 12.

Illustrated: Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, p.237, pl.40, also Stephen Hanscombe, The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators, p.151, no.155.

This print is after Jacques Philippe Le Bas's engraving of Francois Boucher's 'Pensent-ils au Raisin?'The print on the Worcester teabowl is unsigned and, since the same print is known on enamel boxes and plaques, it is possible that both the Worcester and the Chinese porcelain were decorated in Birmingham.