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Vase and cover, bone china, elongated inverted pear-shaped body with a narrow neck flaring out at the rim and narrowing at the bottom before flaring out into a circular base with a shaped edge, two flattened scroll handles that are moulded onto the body and travel up the length of the body, conical cover with concave sides and with a triangular finial that has curved sides; the edges of the rim and the base are gilded, the rim and the top of the base are decorated with a white border that is moulded with flowers and shells touched with gold, the body and the cover are decorated with an underglaze blue scale ground and which is seperated into four sections by moulded white ribs that are outlined in gold and are raised from the main body, each section is reserved with white panels painted with a bird in a landscape and with insects, gilt finial.