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Shallow dish on low foot, earthenware covered front and back with a presumed tin-glaze. On the front painted decoration lustred in red, golden-brown and brown. In the foreground Hercules fighting the Nemean lion. In the background a cave, a town and a ship at sea. Rim is painted and lustred. Reverse has concentric circles and zigzags in lustre.
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