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Pot, coffee and cover
Coffee, or chocolate pot and cover, pearl-glazed earthenware, trumpet foot , bombe form with loop handle, spout, and domed cover with a pierced knop. Decorated in underglaze blue transfer, on one side with the crest of Wales- a crown with three feathers - above a palette, trumpet and ribbon, all over a floral swag; on the opposite side an elephant and howdah in a circular frame, with quivers to top left and bottom right, flowers and a trumpet to top right, trumpet and music to bottom left. Border above foot of rectangles and trefoils. Cover with trophy of pipes, trumpet, music, book and leaves on one side, quiver and roses to opposite side. Geometric border to rim of body, more complex on cover, of demi-lunettes on a dense diaper ground with ogees, and pendant lappets. Roundel of sprigs to knop, semi-circles to back of handle, roses to outside of spout.