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Plate, earthenware, circular shape, standing on a tapering foot-rim slanting inwards with an incised ring around it, curving sides and spreading rim, a raised edge to the well, eight shallow notches and lobes to the rim; transfer-printed in blue with to the centre of the well a version of the 'Verandah' pattern, a Chinese-style design showing in the foreground an oriental fence on a patch of ground with a spreading plant with large flowers and leaves to one side of it, in the background a further spreading plant, border to the outer rim of a lattice-work fence-like pattern issuing three spreading sprays of flower heads, branches and leaves which spread across the rim and down the sides of the well.