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Mug, earthenware, rounded slightly spreading foot-rim, cylindrical sides divided into six panels by vertical incised lines, a band of moulded anthemions to the foot-rim and to the lip-rim, loop handle with overlapping foliate mouldings along its length, transfer-printed in purple with to the exterior sides of the mug the 'Ottoman' pattern comprising two panels enclosed within cartouches of scrolling foliage, one showing four deer in front of a towered building with a background of a lake and distant mountains, the other showing an elaborate fountain with to one side two figures, one on horseback, and to the other a camel-like animal, the two panels separated by an elaborate design of spreading foliage, garlands and scrolls, dentilled ribbon border to the exterior lip-rim, to the interior lip-rim a border composed of four ogee-topped panels showing respectively three deer, a Middle-Eastern style building, two swan-like birds and a landscape scene, border to the handle of a narrow purple band issuing short feathered lines on a stippled purple ground.