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Bust, hybrid-paste porcelain, in the form of the head and shoulders of a femal figure clad in a loose flowing low-cut gown, the figure's head turned to the left, the hair gathered in a knot at the back of the head, the bust mounted on a short cylindrical plinth with spreading foot-rim and flaring upper rim; the head, shoulders and hair of the figure painted in naturalistic enamels, the gown painted in brown-tinged pink lustre and resist decorated with foliate sprigs and patterns of dots, pink lustre bands around the foot-rim and upper rim of the plinth, a wide pink lustre band around the middle of the plinth resist decorated with a border of anthemions.