Casgliadau Arlein

Vase, earthenware, standing on a spreading pedestal foot composed of eight concave panels and with a lobed foot-rim, globular body sloping inwards at the shoulder, cylindrical neck flaring out to a wide spreading roughly oval shaped mouth with lobed lip-rim, to either side of the neck twin foliate moulded loop handles, the lower terminals of which issue spreading moulded foliate motifs down the side of the body; transfer-printed in blue with to the sides of the body the 'Panorama' pattern, an Italianate scene showing three figures on an outcrop of land with beyond them across an expanse of water a mountainous coast with scattered classical buildings, to one side of the scene a waterfall, to the other side a spreading palm tree, the scene enclosed by flowers and folaieg, wide border to the interior and exterior neck and lip-rim of floral garlands and sprays surmounted by a band of scrolls on a blue ground, border to the foot-rim of a pattern of bell-flowers, triangular motifs and floral sprays, floral sprays to the handle.