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Ice pail
Ice pail, cylindrical, standing on three bun feet, flat base curving to straight sides, rib at lip, square, grooved handles, the exterior painted with two large arrangements of flowers and fruit and with two smaller ones under the handles. These include pink roses, cistus, convolvulus, cornflowers, aster, pinks, lilac, white currants, grapes, pineapple, peaches, cherries; apple-green ground rim above, with plain gilt outer border, waved inner border, reserved with four polychrome sprays of flowers in foliate cartouches between floral sprays in raised gilding. Green rim similarly decorated on the interior, and the base painted with a large arrangement of three pink roses, two white roses, convolvulus, cornflowers, two peaches, two plums, an apple, white currants and grapes. Received with old rivets in one side and handle