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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze with a greenish tinge; the cup standing on a shallow foot, tub-shaped sides swelling to the lip, standard high kidney-shaped and scroll handle, plain dish-shaped saucer, on a shallow foot ring. The cup decorated with a gilt line at the foot, the lower part plain below a running border of gilt scrolls and pink enamel dots, band above strewn with gilt dot flower heads on red thread stems with two green leaves, another running border of pink and gilt dots between blue lines above, deckelled gilt line at the lip, decorated inside with gilt ermine tails and red dots. The saucer painted with a pink dog rose with two buds and foliage in the centre, the rim decorated with a deckelled gilt line, a running border of pink and gilt dots between blue lines, a band strewn with stylised flowers as on the cup, and another running border of gilt scrolls and pink dots.