Casgliadau Arlein

Tea bowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, tea bowl simple hemispherical shape, standing on a shallow footring, flared sides, everted lip; decorated in polychrome enamels, the side with an insect with puce head and fore wings, brown rear wings and grey banded thorax, above a band of foliage in greens and brown, opposite a spray of foliage in a similar palette, gilt line at lip and foot. The saucer also standing on a shallow footring, spreading body, everted lip, decorated in the centre with an insect with a blue head and rear wings, brown fore wings and a grey banded thorax above three sprays of foliage, gilt line at rim.