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Miniature teapot, pearlware, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, globular body, short cylindrical neck, plain curving spout the tip of which is broken off, plain loop handle, round domed cover with flat collar-like rim, to the top of the cover a knob-shaped finial, a pierced steam hole to one side of the cover; transfer-printed in black with to one side of the exterior body of the teapot an owl-like bird perched on a branch and to the other side a dog in an outdoor setting with bushes, to the top of the cover a bird perched on a patch of tussocky ground with a bush behind, a running foliate pattern in black to the spout and the handle, black bands around the shoulder and the lip-rim of the teapot and around the rim of the cover and the top of the finial.