Porringer, decorated in brown, blue and green on a cream ground. Floral spray in hollow of porringer has three blooms indicated with brown cross-hatching and two bud-like forms also in brown. Detailing in green and blue. This spray set against a single brown circular line. The plate surrounded by a border of repeated sets of short brown lines and two sets of chevrons, one in blue and one in brown, within two brown lines around the edge.
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