Five Minton saucers with three cups and three coffee cans c.1820

Five Minton saucers with three cups and three coffee cans c.1820, decorated in pattern 539 with scenes of Chinese children at various pursuits beneath gilt-leaved trees, and a Warburton Patent cup and saucer with a printed gilt landscape on a blue ground, some faults, 13.6cm max. (13)

The pattern is based on Pillement's Recueil de Plusieurs Jeux d'Enfants Chinois, engraved and published by P C Canot in London in 1759. Cf. Maria Gordon Smith, Pillement, p.41.