Porringer with two handles. Decorated in reddish brown, blue and green on a cream ground. In the centre, surrounded by a thick circular brown line within a thin one, is a spray of three blue-petalled flowers on brown stems, the ends of which extend beyond the circle. The porringer has a border of two poorly defined concentric brown lines between which are sets of confronting triangles in brown alternating with similar shapes in blue and loops in green spaced at intervals all the way round.
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