Description:

Tile of earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze blue with a boy and girl seated in a landscape, the former playing a flute, and with a border of leafy scrolls. Print shown in the Minton pattern book, one of a series of twelve subjects entitled 'Watteau' (Minton MSS, No.1842).

References - Lockett, Terence A., 'Collecting Victorian Tiles', 1979. p.192; Godden, Geoffrey, 'Davenport' (Barrie & Jenkins) 1989.