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Pot-lid, earthenware, circular shape with convex top, the underside of the lid and the flange obscured by the frame; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'Transplanting Rice', showing an oriental paddy field with Chinese figures placing bundles of rice in baskets, in the background pagodas and other oriental buildings, any border which may enclose the print is obscured by the frame. The glaze crazed. The pot-lid mounted for display in a close-fitting circular wooden frame painted black, a circular piece of torn brown paper is stuck across the bottom of the frame.