A London decorated Chinese Export tea bowl and saucer

A Chinese Export tea bowl and saucer, finely painted in coloured enamels in the London atelier of James Giles in Teniers style with two young men seated on stools in wooded landscapes, each smoking a pipe, within gilt dentil borders, the porcelain circa 1755, the decoration circa 1760-65, no marks

See Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles, page 192, plate 29 a and b, for other pieces from this service, which comprised both Chinese and Worcester porcelain decorated in the Giles atelier 

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