Porringer, decorated in brown, blue and green on a cream ground. Circular blue line in hollow of porringer with at the centre a swirling design in brown, blue and green lines curved in an anti clockwise direction. The porringer has a border of two concentric brown lines enclosing four patches of brown frond motifs at intervals, separated by two green and two blue frond motifs.
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