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Vase, with cover
Vase, soft-paste porcelain, urn shaped form standing on a thick square base on which is circular shaped wreath moulding curving into a short concave stem with a small oval bulb at junction between stem and vase body, body curves gently in lower section and flares with steep sides decorated with petal moulding around the well of the body, wreath moulded band around surface and another flower patterned moulded band at shoulder with floral moulded swags with bows at central points of front and back, extremity at shoulder with two moulded masks acting as handles on either side, concave neck, wreath moulded rim, round high domed cover, to the top of the cover a finial in an arrow head shaped tip ontop of a sphere; claret coloured ground with moulding reserved in white, with junctions of the form lined in gilt and gilt bordering the moulding, rim edge lined in gilt, petal moulding and masks touched in gilt; glazed