Casgliadau Arlein

Comport, earthenware, oval dish on a stem base with an oval spreading foot, one loop handle that curves slightly in on itself and which terminates on the underside of the dish; the handle, the underside and the top side of the rim are decorated with a wide border of acorns and foliage, the central reserve is circled by a gilt line border and is printed with "The Blind Fiddler" which is a scene copied from a painting by David Wilkie, the scene is of a domestic interior where a man is seated to the left playing the fiddle while two children standing in the centre look on, to the right of the scene is seated a woman and child who is reaching out to two men standing by the hearth, behind the woman and child stands a man accompanying the fiddler on another instrument and seated by the fiddler in front of the hearth is a nursemaid nursing a baby, the foot is banded with a green waved border in between two gilt line borders and the edge of the rim is gilded.