An extensive Children at Play pattern toy dinner service, printed in black with three scenes featuring two girls with a goat beneath a tree, two boys with a bird's nest, and a boy and a girl with a wheelbarrow and two dogs, comprising a covered soup tureen with stand and ladle, two covered sauce tureens with stands and ladles, two covered vegetable dishes, two sauceboats, six graduated meat dishes and two deep dishes, eighteen dinner plates, six dessert plates and six tea plates, all unmarked, circa 1840-60