Casgliadau Arlein

Plate, earthenware, circular shape with flat base, curving sides and spreading rim, a raised edge to the well, eight shallow notches and lobes to the rim; transfer-printed in blue with to the centre of the well the 'Ladies of Llangollen' pattern, in the foreground two female figures on horseback and a male figure on foot by the side of a river with cattle standing in it, in the background a rural landscape with hills, trees, a village and a castle, the scene enclosed within a narrow dentilled border, a wide border to the rim and extending down the sides of the well of festooned flowers and foliage interspersed with stylized spiders' webs issuing pendant garlands of flowers and foliage all on a blue ground, a narrow dentilled border to the outer rim.