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Tea-caddy and cover
Tea-caddy, hard-paste porcelain, oval shape with rounded spreading foot-rim, straight sides, rounded shoulder and straight-sided neck, oval cover with straight sides and rounded top, to the top of the cover a finial modelled in the form of a bunch of grapes, moulded leaves around the base of the finial; the exterior body of the tea-caddy and the sides of the cover covered with a thickly spotted decoration of floral sprigs in polychrome enamels, including roses and pansies, and smaller gilt leaf sprigs, gilt lines around the shoulder and base of the neck of the tea-caddy and the rim of the cover, the finial painted in puce and green, the moulded leaves picked out in gilt.