A set of twelve Minton & Boyle porcelain soup plates, together with a similar bowl, 1836-1841, polychrome plates with moulded borders, pattern 4237, featuring a colourful bird amidst flowering foliage, four branching floral sprays to the rims, Felspar porcelain M&B backstamp to bases with red pattern numbers, the bowl 27.5 cm diameter, the soup plates 26.5 cm diameter