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Pearlware sauce tureen, boat shaped with flared trumpet foot; domed cover with ring handle (missing), and spoon aperture; oval stand with foot ring; painted with named botanical specimens in polychrome enamels: on stand the 'Bending Stalked Marigold', with a yellow daisy head, brown centre and narrow foliage; the tureen with on one side the 'Mediterranean Stock' a four petalled purple flower, with green spear shaped leaves, and opposite 'Love in a Mist' a blue flower with very fine green foliage; the cover with, on one side, the 'Long Flowered Oenothera' a yellow four petalled flower with yellow stamens, and orange bud, and on the opposite side the 'Pellitory of Spain' a white flowerhead, with a yellow centre, purple undersides, and green feathery leaves, gilded line above foot, gilded rims.