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Coffee pot, black basalt, oval four-lobed form with inset base and straight sides, sharp shoulder and concave neck rising into a shaped gallery, curving spout with applied leaves and flowering plants around the base and a fitted metal spout at the lip, square handle, oval domed cover attached to the coffee pot by a metal hinge at one end and with an urn-shaped finial to the centre, each side of the coffee pot is moulded with two 'pillars' with between them to one side the figure of a seated woman with a dog on a leash ('poor Maria'), and to the other side the figure of a seated shepherd boy with a dog, the lower body of the coffee pot is separated from the upper body by an applied wavy line below which is a band of applied flowers and stiff leaves on a granulated ground, the same border is repeated upside down around the sides of the cover and also around the neck but without the granulated ground and with an extra border of curved leaves.