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Saucer of soft-paste porcelain with creamy translucency and 'moons' (spots of lighter translucency); opaque creamy glaze, crazed next to the rim; standing on a slightly tapering ground footrim, with fluted curved sides and scalloped rim; decorated with two panels each with a scalloped border of red and blue lines and each containing a Meissen-style painted view of a quayside with boats, ruins and buildings across water in the distance; between these a caterpillar, butterfly and fly in the centre, sprays of rose and heartsease on the sides, the rim edged with a chocolate brown line.