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Miniature cabinet cup of soft-paste porcelain with white translucency; urn-shaped body on a turned pedestal foot, with a flared rim; the handle in the form of a snake-headed loop attached above the rim and joined to the body by a long spur. Painted on one side with a pink rose and a blue butterfly, on the other with a white and pink flower; inside the rim, a border of circles of gold dots centred on green dots; gilt lines around the rim, foot and above the waist; gilt details on the handle.