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Teapot and cover
Teapot, earthenware, square foot-rim, oblong body, slightly convex panels on body, shelving collar with moulded anthemions along rim; a pyramidal cover moulded with anthemions, the oblong finial gadrooned; a curved spout, upper spout moulded with an anthemion; a high, straight-topped loop handle with raised thumb spur; transfer-printed in puce with the 'Woman gathering flowers' pattern, a female figure gathering flowers in front of a landscape of water and distant pyramid-shaped islands, beneath an arching lace-style border issuing roccoco-style floral motifs, similar filigree lace-style border to lip-rim above miniature repeats of main pattern, interspersed with scrolling floral garlands and motifs, similar border to the cover, a filigree pattern to the finial, floral sprays to the upper and lower spout, a running interlocking geometric pattern on a filigree lace-type ground to the handle.