A mixed group of Minton Naturalist Service wares, circa 1870, designed by William Stephen Coleman in the Aesthetic style, based on Japanese prints and decorated with random arrangements of birds, fish, insects and plants, including a square shaped jardinière and stand, height 18cm, a leaf shaped dish with moulded crab foot to the underside, length 21cm, three pierced rim plates, a circular stand and nine plates, various printed, painted and impressed marks (faults).