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Coffee-pot; hard-paste porcelain; octagonal body with raised rim, decorated with chased gold arabesques on white ground; on each side, two scenes of Roman ruins painted to imitate miniature glass mosaics and set on burnished gold panels; on one side scenes depict tomb of Caius Cestus and temple of Castor and Pollux, other Basilica of Constantine and unidentified ruin; lid ornamented with sphinx; interior of rim, handle and spout are gilded; marked.
Reproduced by permission of the artist. © The Trustees of the British Museum
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