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Tea cup and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, cup shallow hemispherical cup standing on a shallow foot rim, C-scroll handle with a scroll terminal; decorated opposite the handle with an oval reserve painted in polychrome enamel, with a cat attacking a cock, a landscape and a building in the background, within a gilt border of linked ovolos, wreathed with pink roses and blue ribbons, gilt ovolo border to inner lip, one pink rose sprig either side of handle, leaf wreath to bottom, gilding to handle. Saucer standing on a shallow foot rim, spreading sides, decorated in the centre with a large circular reserve of a sheep, a wolf with a trumpet in its mouth and a dog in a landscape, hut behind, within a gilt border of linked ovolos surrounded by pink roses and green foliate decortion, blue ribbon to top, gilt linked ovolos border to lip.