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Mug, earthenware, protruding rounded foot-rim with raised moulding, vertical sides divided into six panels by incised lines, raised moulding to lip-rim, loop handle with five overlapping foliate mouldings; transfer-printed in purple with the 'Ottoman' pattern, to one side a scene of a figure on horseback besides an elaborate fountain with a camel-like animal to the other side of it, to the other side a scene of four deer on a grassy outcrop surrounded by water with a towered building in the background, both scenes enclosed within scrolling cartouches of foliage and flowers, a border of arcades and dots to the exterior lip-rim, to the interior lip-rim a border composed of six separate panels showing scenes containing deer, swan-like birds and buildings, a border of narrow lines and arrows to the handle.