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Vase, hard-paste porcelain, inverted egg-shaped form with a cylindrical neck that has concave sides, spreading foot, two vertical handles in the shape of acanthus leaves are moulded onto the body and have scrolling upper terminals; the handles are gilded, the rim and the base of the neck and the foot are banded with wide gilt borders, the neck is painted with a scrolling leaf and flower border in gold in between borders of petals in gold, the foot is banded with a gold trellis border, the body of the vase is decorated with a gold diaper ground and the front of the vase is reserved with a square panel outlined with a gold border and painted with flowers.