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Cup, tea and saucer
Tea cup, very white hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and rounded sides with around the upper body a moulded border of rectangular panels with classical scrolls in relief in alternate panels, scroll handle; painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the body a landscape with three birds perched in three trees, three insects around the rest of the exterior sides, the handle picked out in gilt, gilt lines around the foot-rim and lip-rim. Saucer, very white hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides with around the rim a moulded border as on the cup; painted in polychrome enamels with to the well a landscape with three birds perched in a tree, four insects around the sides of the well, a gilt line around the rim.