Casgliadau Arlein

Tea bowl and saucer in hard-paste porcelain, the cup with slightly flaring rim and raised foot ring, the saucer dish-shaped with foot ring, flared rim and without a well; border of black enamel with linked 'C' scrolls in gilt on the interior rim of the tea bowl and saucer, the cup with two Meissen-style cartouches formed by black enamel and gilt scrolled borders from which issue gilt scrolls and stylised flowers in puce and red enamel, one with a painted indoor scene in polychrome enamels and the other with finely painted flowers and a flying insect in puce, the saucer with a larger version of the indoor scene on the tea bowl, also in polychrome enamels and with the same cartouche border, featuring a mother and child behind a table laid with a bowl of fruit and a vase of scrolls, behind them a window with bamboo blind looking out onto a garden.