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Jug and cover
Jug, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a rounded foot-rim, pear-shaped body, triangular beak spout with foliate moulding to the underside, loop handle with foliate moulding and raised thumb-spur, round slightly domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a flower head with stem and leaves, a pierced steam hole to one side; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the jug an oval panel painted with in one a view of a hare and in the other a fawn, the panels enclosed by puce trellis-like borders entwined by ribbon-tied flowers, around the rest of the exterior body of the jug, the underside of the spout and the top of the cover are scattered floral sprigs, the spout and handle picked out in puce and gilt, a gilt edge to the rim of the cover, the finial picked out in puce, yellow and green.