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Pot, coffee and cover
Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on three paw feet with foliate moulding to their upper terminals, pear-shaped body, cylindrical neck with a moulded basketwork pattern divided into none divisions by short raised ribs, triangular beak spout with waved lip and elaborate foliate scrolled moulding to the underside, scrolled loop handle with double-curve, foliate-moulding and a raised thumb-spur at the shoulder, and foliate moulding at the lower terminal, round domed cover with around the sides a moulded basketwork pattern divided into ten divisions by short raised ribs, to the top of the cover a pear finial with two leaves and a stem; finely painted in puce with around the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover scattered sprays and sprigs of naturalistic flowers, chocolate bands around the lip-rim of the coffee pot and the rim of the cover, the spout picked out in puce, the feet and handle picked out in puce and chocolate, the pear finial painted in puce, yellow and green.