Casgliadau Arlein

Vase for dried flowers, black basalt, classical vase form, trumpet shaped foot ringed under bowl, oviform bowl the lower half fluted, the upper plain with sprigged decoration, high cover with reeded rim and convex sides, terminating in a grooved dome with a pine-cone finial, the body of the cover perforated; four sprigged classical groups of draped female figures to body of vase: Britannia in and lion, indicating Fame with a trumpet; three ladies, one with laurel leaves crowning a bust, one pointing to a book held by the other; a lady holding a torch and rising from a classical stool; a lady weeping over an urn on a column