A Minton pink-ground part dessert-service, the plates painted in colours with vignettes of figures and buildings, mostly in river and lakeland settings, the comports with central stylised gilt flower heads, the borders with bands of roundels painted with flowers on a gilt-ground below waved gilt-line rims, comprising: a tazza on a tripod footed stand; three comports; and seventeen plates, impressed marks, date code for 1863, painted pattern no. A6349, the plates -- 9 1/8in. diam. (21)