porringer

Porringer, decorated in brown, blue and green on a cream ground. Diamond shape in hollow of porringer with two sets of blue lines and two sets of green on inner edge of the sides of the diamond, with brown lines in the corners. Central rosette of radiating lines in brown, green and blue. In the oval shapes left on four sides are linear designs in brown, green and blue. Concentric brown circles around the edge.

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