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Flask, earthenware, circular pilgrim-bottle shape with flat upper and lower sides and rounded sides around the middle, two incised circle around the centre of the upper and lower sides, to one end of the body a cylindrical neck with rounded lip-rim; painted in high temperature colours with to the upperside of the flask a scene showing an exotic peacock-like bird standing on a patch of grass and surrounded by spreading flowering shrubs all in blue, yellow, orange, green and brown, below the scene is the inscription "MARY PMV" in brown, to the lower side of the flask the inscription "PV / MV" in brown, surrounded by small stars and enclosed by an elaborate circular cartouche in orange, yellow, blue, green and brown featuring an inner border pattern and a ring of semi-circular motifs issuing spreading stylized foliage, border around the middle of the body of a yellow band decorated with a triangle and semi-circle pattern in brown and enclosed by two bands of orange semi-circles with blue dots, the neck painted blue and decorated with a brown lattice pattern.