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Tea cup and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, tea cup standing on a foot rim, rounded sides tapering in at base, slightly everted lip, scroll handle; decorated in polychrome enamels, opposite the handle with three Watteau figures in a landscape, two seated on the ground, one wearing puprple apprearing from a bush behind carrying a stick, basket with flowers and rock in foreground, two sprigs around handle one a pink flower the other yellow, spray of yellow, pink and orange flowers to bottom, blue and gilt highlighting to handle, ornamental gilt foliate border to inner lip, gilt border line to lip. Saucer standing on a foot rim, spreading sides; decorated in polychrome enamels, the centre with two figures seated on a bench in a garden, the female wearing a blue bodice and orange skirt, the man wearing a red jacket holding a glass of wine, trees behind, rock in foreground, goliate gilt border to lip, gilt border line to lip.