Casgliadau Arlein

Bowl, of red earthenware, standing on a flared foot, the sides rounded then rising steeply and flaring, ending in a broad, rounded outer rim; covered with the exception of the unglazed foot, with a thick bright turquoise glaze, painted in black beneath the glaze in the central well with a tiger-like animal in outline, surrounded by stylised foliage all within two concentric bands, above this, a broad border of a geometric design of triangles and circles, two further concentric bands then an outer border of stylised foliate motifs with a further two bands to the outer edge; the exterior sides with a continuous pattern of three waved, undulating lines surmounting two thick bands above triangles interspersed with tear-shapes, reaching down to the extremity of the glazed area; the whole pitted and grit speckled.