Casgliadau Arlein

Coffee pot, with a contemporary cover not en suite, creamy earthenware, heavily blued pearl-glaze, run and pooled,the blue pigment clouding around the foot, thinly potted; wheel-thrown pear-shaped body, spreading recessed foot with bevelled rim, plain loop handle, scroll-shaped spout, the lower section fluted and fearther moulded; painted in underglaze blue on each side with a chinoiserie landscape comprising a double roofed pagoda with a staff and 'J' pennon, flanked by a lattice fence and two trees including a willow, conventional rocks and water in the foreground, and sky full of blobs representing birds; lattice border at the neck broken by scrolled rectangular panels, and with arcade of lunettes below; chevron pattern to handle and spout, the cover conical with heavily crazed glaze and small bead knop, painted in underglaze blue with a lattice border and conventional groups of weeds and water. Old lead filling to hole in side of pot.