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Cabinet cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze, concentric fire crack around the the base of the cup, the glaze of which is slightly pitted and speckled. The cup cylindrical with a sharply everted lip, standing on threepaw feet, high scroll handle containing a lotus fan and patera, mask terminal, and top bead. The saucer on a shallow foot, with a flared rim and flat centre. The exterior of the cup with an underglaze blue ground, decorated with gilt foliage and folliate scrolls, and reserved at the front in a gilt frame with an oval view of the North beach at Tenby with the harbour and castle hill in the middle ground executed in rather muted greens, browns, yellows and greys, gilt line to lip and around the base, feet and handle gilded, running trefoil leaf and bead border in gilding inside the lip. The saucer with a similarly gilded underglaze blue ground and a central circular reserve of Pembroke Dock with a river in the middle ground with houses, a ship on the stocks and industrial buildings beyond, and the sea and hills in the background. Both views identified on the reverse in red enamel script.