porringer

Porringer with two handles decorated in brown, blue and green on a cream ground. The hollow of the porringer has four motifs made up of a semicircle of radiating brown lines at each side, joined by three rows of dots, one each in brown, green and blue. At the centre of the dish are four brown dots, surrounded by a curved diamond shape made up of dots in the same three colours, and linked by a brown floral shape emerging from each of the semicircular motifs. The porringer has a border of two concentric brown lines enclosing four patches of brown frond motifs at intervals, separated by two frond motifs, one in blue, one in brown, and two looped motifs in brown.

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