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Gourd, silver, and ivory; with a flat lip and protruding, slightly concave foot; from a four-part primary mould, with a garden scene on each main side, one with peonies growing beside a perforated natural rock formation, and the other with chrysanthemums in a similar setting, each contained within a thin, raised frame, the narrow sides with mask-and-ring handles, the inner neck and a slim area of the inner lip lined with silver, with an additional inner neck and lip of ivory that, when in place, largely obscures the silver