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Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on three paw feet with foliate moulding to their upper terminals, pear-shaped body, cylindrical neck with a moulded basketwork pattern divided into nine divisions by short raised ribs, triangular beak spout with waved lip and elaborate foliate scrolled moulding to the underside, scrolled loop handle with double-curve, foliate-moulding and a raised thumb-spur at the shoulder, and foliate moulding at the lower terminal, round domed cover with around the sides a moulded basketwork pattern divided into ten divisions by short raised ribs, to the top of the cover a pear finial with two leaves and a stem, metal rims around the lip-rim of the coffee pot and the rim of the cover with to the side above the handle a metal hinge joining the cover onto the coffee pot, a curving metal leaf rises up from the hinge; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the exterior body of the coffee pot a large landscape with three small figures, two carrying baskets, walking along a dirt track towrds a river, on the far side of the river stands a fortified building on a high bank, a smaller landscape to the top of the cover, around the rest of the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover scattered sprays and sprigs of naturalistic flowers, the feet, spout and handle picked out in gilt, the pear finial painted in red, yellow, black and green.