Casgliadau Arlein

Teapot and cover, soft-paste 'duck-egg' porcelain, greenish translucency and a grey-green tinge to the glaze; rectangular 'London' shape with rounded corners, pronounced mould lines, up-curving spout moulded with ribs at the base and scrolls at the top, scrolling ear-shaped handle, rectangular domed cover with a flattened top, pierced with a steam hole, and grooved pyramid finial; pierced with twelve pouring holes arranged in a rounded inverted triangle. Decorated on each side with an on-glaze transfer-print comprising a seated Chinese figure, surrounded by five standing figures of attendants within a landscape of buildings and trees, including a river with European style houses in the background, all overpainted in blue, green, red, purple, brown, orange, grey and black enamels, gilt border at the shoulders of scrolled reserves containing small iron red landscapes alternating with larger polychrome scenes of birds on branches; gilt line to the foot, handle and spout partly gilded; the cover has the same border, and also bears on each side a bird on a branch, the finial gilded.