Casgliadau Arlein

Pot, soft-paste porcelain, swelling form with short cylindrical foot-rim and bulbous body sloping inwards at the shoulder before flaring slightly to the lip-rim, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a piece of fruit with a stem and leaves whihc have now partially broken off; finely painted in puce monochrome with around the exterior body of the pot and the sides of the cover sprays and sprigs of naturalistic flowers including several roses, a very worn brown edge to the lip-rim of the pot, the fruit finial picked out in puce. The lip-rim of the pot chipped with a crack to one side of the body, the rim of the cover slightly chipped.