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Sugar bowl and cover, hard-paste porcelain, circular, standing on a foot rim, staight sides tapering inwards at base, flat cover with curved edges, bud finial; decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt, on one side with a bird, with an orange body, purple wings and gilt head feathers, walking amid grasses, rocks in foreground, opposite a spray of flowers, two sprigs, one orange and one purple, border to rim with a gilt line and puce foliage festoons and three green bows; cover decorated on one side with a bird with an orange body perching on a tree, rocks below, opposite two sprigs, one blue, the other a purple flower, border of gilt lines with entwined puce festoons and three green bows to rim, finial painted purple and green.