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Teapot and cover
Teapot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a foot rim, globular body, up-turned spout, scroll handle, slighly domed cover with acorn finial; decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt, sides with four different sprigs of flowers, broen line border to shoulders with entwining leaves forming four horse-shoe shapes, each surrounding a sprig of flowers and joined by garlands of puce flowers, three flower sprigs around neck, one an orange flower, one purple and one yellow, handle highlighted in gilt, sprig to spout and gilding to edge of spout and rim; cover decorated with a border comprising a brown line, entwined leaves and puce garlands, finial highlighted in gilt, gilt border to rim.