18th Century Worcester Porcelain Teabowl and Saucer, Singing Lesson Print.

18th Century Worcester Porcelain Teabowl and Saucer, Singing Lesson Print.  The teabowl on foot, with slender black bands to rim interior of teabowl and toward rim on saucer, enclosing a delicate print of Robert Hancock's Singing Lesson. The print after an illustration by Boitard. The teabowl verso with a print of a neoclassical ruin.  Unmarked.  Circa 1765.  1 5/8" H. x 2 7/8" Diameter, the teabowl. 7/8" H. x 4 3/4" Diameter.  Condition: 1/4" rim chip to saucer terminating in a hairline crack, at 5 o'clock, to the saucer. Dot of frit, 2 o'clock. The area of the teabowl above the lady singer and near the tree, at the rim, slightly rough, as fired.  Provenance: Great American Collective, 1994 Robin Henry Ceramic Collection, New York. Collection #8.