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Jug, earthenware, octagonal inset base, octagonal pear-shaped body, raised beak spout with foliate moulding to its base, squared-shouldered wish-bone handle with three-lobed lower terminal; transfer-printed in flow blue with to the sides of the body the 'Whampoa' pattern, a chinoiserie-style scene showing in the foreground a number of elaborate pagodas linked by bridges and fences with a spreading willow-like tree hanging over them, in the background further pagodas on islands in an expanse of water, border to the interior and exterior lip-rim and spout of flower heads, foliage and scrolls on a scale blue ground, a scale blue border to the handle, the decoration outlined in gilt, gilt foliate motifs to the handle.