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Cup and saucer
Cup and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, the cup with a green tinged white translucency, the saucer with a white translucency; cup standing on a rounded foot rim, indented above, with rounded sides, flaring prominently at lip; loop handle, ridged above anthemion moulded terminal; saucer standing on a cylindrical foot rim curving into rounded spreading sides; both painted in blue, purple, and yellow enamels, with growing flowers, gilt leaves, stems and roots, stems on saucer with thorns; upper part of handle gilded, and anthemion moulding gilded; gilt leaf and berry border inside cup lip, and plain gilt bands to foot rim, and cup and saucer lip.