Casgliadau Arlein

Coffee-pot, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous fluted sides tapering gently inwards at the shoulder to a cylindrical neck, plain curving spout with wide lip, ridged loop handle with raised thumb-spur, domed cover with fluted sides and flat collar-like rim, to the top of the cover a finial moulded in the form of a flower bud issuing moulded leaves which spread across the sides of the cover, a pierced steam-hole to one side of the cover; the exterior sides of the coffee-pot and the top of the cover painted in underglaze blue with sprays of conventional Chinese-style flowers and foliage, a spray of leaves to the underside of the spout, underglaze blue scroll designs to the top of the spout and to the handle, underglaze blue border around the foot-rim and the top of the cover of a pattern of blades of grass, plain blue bands around the lip-rim and the rim of the cover. The lower body and one side of the coffee-pot cracked.