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Vase, hybrid-paste porcelain, standing on a square base, hydria-shaped body with spreading short pedestal foot and flaring everted mouth, to either side of the mouth twin scroll and ring handles, a spreading moulded leaf to the bottom of each handle; to the front of the vase a reserved irregular rectangular panel finely painted in polychrome enamels with a scene showing a reclining female figure in classical attire holding a bird on a string, with besides her two winged cupids, one with a bow and arrow, the scene enclosed by a beaded gilt border, the rest of the vase densely painted in polychrome enamels with roses and other garden flowers on a gilt ground, the foot-rim and lip-rim decorated with borders of white dots reserved against the gilt ground, the handles painted gilt, the base painted in mottled brown and green to create a marbled effect. The stem of the vase broken and repaired.