Featured Hand Painted Childs Tea Service - Origin?

I can't find a similar example of this childs tea service set. It's all hand painted in black on white. The teapot and sugar have a distinctive finial, which might be a clue as to origin. I was thinking French, but I really don't know. Kind of unusual to find a child's set that they would hand paint - maybe more of a miniature set than for use by a child. Anyone have any ideas as to origin?

 

Size? Pic of bottom? Knee jerk is newish.

 

Ditto.

 

I can understand why you think newish, but who in recent times would hand paint different intricate scenes like this? Unless there's some type of new transfer print technique that looks like hand painting that I'm unaware of and these aren't hand painted at all. I must admit that I'm a little confused by these. Here's a photo of the underside - no markings, and, yes, doesn't appear particularly old.

 

BTW, the teapot is 4 1/2" wide from back of handle to tip of spout and 2 1/2" high exclusive of the finial

 

Very unusual. I wonder if it is a very clever printing method as some of the scenes look wrong eg boy with no head and random boat.

 

Bat print rather than transfer maybe.

 

Agree.
Probably some kind of transfer printing technique, using either bat or transferpaper, and finished with some handpainted details.

 

Good point - that half-boy is telling. I'm unfamiliar with bat printing, but will look into it. So, are there other similar examples out there of something being printed like that and then hand finished? And when would this kind of combination printing / hand finishing have been used and by whom?

 

China,India and other countries still do things by hand. "hand painted" isnt the marker you might think it is.