diff --git a/src/ui/public/vis/request_handlers/courier.js b/src/ui/public/vis/request_handlers/courier.js
index 85835cbd22b9..ca03bb0cec87 100644
--- a/src/ui/public/vis/request_handlers/courier.js
+++ b/src/ui/public/vis/request_handlers/courier.js
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ const CourierRequestHandlerProvider = function (Private, courier, timefilter) {
 
       // Add the explicit passed timeRange as a filter to the requestSearchSource.
       requestSearchSource.filter(() => {
-        return timefilter.get(searchSource.index(), timeRange);
+        return timefilter.get(searchSource.get('index'), timeRange);
       });
 
       removeSearchSourceParentTimefilter(requestSearchSource);
diff --git a/test/functional/apps/visualize/_linked_saved_searches.js b/test/functional/apps/visualize/_linked_saved_searches.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..019d7077169c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/apps/visualize/_linked_saved_searches.js
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import expect from 'expect.js';
+
+export default function ({ getPageObjects, getService }) {
+  const retry = getService('retry');
+  const PageObjects = getPageObjects(['common', 'discover', 'visualize', 'header']);
+
+  // Blocked by: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/19750
+  describe.skip('visualize app', function describeIndexTests() {
+    const fromTime = '2015-09-19 06:31:44.000';
+    const toTime = '2015-09-23 18:31:44.000';
+
+    describe('linked saved searched', () => {
+
+      const savedSearchName = 'vis_saved_search';
+
+      before(async () => {
+        await PageObjects.common.navigateToUrl('discover', '');
+        await PageObjects.discover.saveSearch(savedSearchName);
+      });
+
+      it('should create a visualization from a saved search', async () => {
+        retry.try(async () => {
+          // Sometimes navigation to the page fails, so we have this in a retry
+          await PageObjects.common.navigateToUrl('visualize', 'new');
+          await PageObjects.visualize.waitForVisualizationSelectPage();
+        });
+        await PageObjects.visualize.clickDataTable();
+        await PageObjects.visualize.clickSavedSearch(savedSearchName);
+        await PageObjects.header.setAbsoluteRange(fromTime, toTime);
+        await PageObjects.header.waitUntilLoadingHasFinished();
+        const data = await PageObjects.visualize.getDataTableData();
+        expect(data.trim()).to.be('14,004');
+      });
+
+      it('should respect the time filter when linked to a saved search', async () => {
+        await PageObjects.header.setAbsoluteRange('2015-09-19 06:31:44.000', '2015-09-21 10:00:00.000');
+        await PageObjects.header.waitUntilLoadingHasFinished();
+        const data = await PageObjects.visualize.getDataTableData();
+        expect(data.trim()).to.be('6,086');
+      });
+    });
+
+    after(async () => {
+      await PageObjects.header.setAbsoluteRange(fromTime, toTime);
+    });
+  });
+}
diff --git a/test/functional/apps/visualize/index.js b/test/functional/apps/visualize/index.js
index ca6edba9b8bf..60dde1880615 100644
--- a/test/functional/apps/visualize/index.js
+++ b/test/functional/apps/visualize/index.js
@@ -53,5 +53,6 @@ export default function ({ getService, loadTestFile }) {
     loadTestFile(require.resolve('./_histogram_request_start'));
     loadTestFile(require.resolve('./_vega_chart'));
     loadTestFile(require.resolve('./_lab_mode'));
+    loadTestFile(require.resolve('./_linked_saved_searches.js'));
   });
 }
diff --git a/test/functional/page_objects/visualize_page.js b/test/functional/page_objects/visualize_page.js
index 8fb5f3672383..82f036c361a1 100644
--- a/test/functional/page_objects/visualize_page.js
+++ b/test/functional/page_objects/visualize_page.js
@@ -375,6 +375,11 @@ export function VisualizePageProvider({ getService, getPageObjects }) {
       await PageObjects.header.waitUntilLoadingHasFinished();
     }
 
+    async clickSavedSearch(savedSearchName) {
+      await find.clickByPartialLinkText(savedSearchName);
+      await PageObjects.header.waitUntilLoadingHasFinished();
+    }
+
     async setValue(newValue) {
       await find.clickByCssSelector('button[ng-click="numberListCntr.add()"]', defaultFindTimeout * 2);
       const input = await find.byCssSelector('input[ng-model="numberListCntr.getList()[$index]"]');