Casgliadau Arlein

Slop-bowl, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze. Circular, standing on a shallow foot rim, spreading sides. Decorated with a gilt band at the foot and lip, lower part of the exterior white, with a gilt band of pendant loops and rays, the remainder with an unevenly applied blue-green ground ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with three oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads; the interior with a broad gilt line at the lip above a band of pendant loops, rays and dots, and painted with a bouquet of garden flowers in the centre.