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Jug, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, pear-shaped body with cylindrical neck, triangular beak spout with to the underside the moulded mask of a human face surrounded by moulded scrolls, high scrolled loop handle with several inner and outer spurs and foliate moulding to the underside of the upper terminal, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a pear with a stem and leaves, which are slightly broken, a pierced steam hole to one side; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the upper body of the jug and the top of the cover looping festoons of flowers, further floral sprays and sprigs around the lower exterior body of the jug, around the exterior neck of the jug and the sides of the cover a border of a scale pattern in puce enclosed between a gilt line and a narrow band of foliate scrolls in gilt, gilt edges to the lip-rim of the jug and the rim of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt, the pear finial painted in red, black and green. The foot-rim of the jug broken and repaired, the spout chipped.