Tureen and cover
Tureen and cover, cream-coloured earthenware with clear glaze, the base with a plain foot-ring, the body with flaring sides and pronounced shoulder and inturned rim, two horizontal loop handles beneath the rim, domed cover with bobbin-shaped knop with domed finial and moulded edge; the tureen and cover decorated with evenly-spaced stylised clover leaves hand-painted overglaze in black and green enamels surrounded by free-form dots and loops, between these are groups of four or five short parallel, horizontal brushstroke lines, hand-painted overglaze in black, beneath the rim and at the edge of the cover is a transfer-printed band of interlaced 'S' shapes forming a schematic rope pattern, the handle with reeding and a scalloped terminal.
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