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Tea bowl, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides, slightly flaring lip-rim; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the exterior sides of the tea bowl a group of fruit bordered below by rococo scrolls in puce and further sprays of fruit and leaves, to the interior bottom of the bowl a single piece of fruit with a leaf, a gilt edge to the lip-rim. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the centre of the well a group of fruit bordered below by rococo scrolls in puce, around the sides of the well scattered sprays of fruit and leaf sprigs, a gilt edge to the rim. The foot-rim chipped.