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Milk or cream jug, hard-paste porcelain with white translucency, clear glaze, pear shaped body rising to scalloped and indented rim and curved lip, standing on three squat legs with out- and up-turned feet, the extruded handle issuing from the rim and forming a loop with irregular undulations to the sides of the handle, the terminal being cut at the diagonal; moulded scrolls and scale patterns beneath and around rim and lip, also framing two asymmetrical cartouches to each side of the body, each painted in polychrome enamels over the glaze, to one side is a scene of two hens and a cockerel in a rural landscape with river and tower to the left, to the opposite side a scene with two ducks and a riverbank, with buildings in the distance to the left, enamelled floral sprigs around the body including some picking out moulded details, gilded at the lip, with moulded details picked out in gilt at the handle, legs and cartouches.