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Cup and saucer
Cup and saucer, porcelain with good whitish translucency, bell-shaped cup on a thick straight-edged foot ring that is very slightly flared and with rounded bottom, high kidney-shaped handle with rounded inner terminals, the saucer with flat slightly concave unglazed base and ogee curved sides; decorated over the glaze inside the cup and saucer with gilt urns amid elaborate scrolling vines, flowers and acanthus, the urns holding enamelled flowers, a further group of flowers in the centre of the saucer and the base of the cup, a gilt leaf tendril round the outside of the cup, gilt rims, foot of the cup and edges of the handle.