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Ewer and basin, hard-paste porcelain, helmet-shaped ewer with an elongated body narrowing at the base and with a spreading circular pedestal foot, deep pouring spout and a high loop handle with a lower acanthus leaf terminal and an upper griffin head terminal, circular ewer with an indented base and an everted rim; the neck and spout and handle of the ewer are gilded, the interior rim of the ewer and the rim of the basin are banded with a gilt border, the base of the ewer are decorated with three gilt bands, both pieces are painted with a continuous border of large sprays of flowers.