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Description:
Soft-paste porcelain cream pot with a beak-shaped spout (may have lost its lid), narrow neck, bulbous-shaped, reed-molded body, narrow base, and applied S-scroll handle. The pot is painted in underglaze cobalt blue in the style of Saint-Cloud porcelain (a French soft-paste porcelain manufactory located near Paris and popular in the early 18th century) with a painted border of pendant foliage and stylized bucrania (cow's heads) with narrow bands of radial hatching and trellis work around the rim.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain

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