Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, pearlware, standing on a spreading waisted waved foot-rim, bulbous sides with four raised vertical bosses creating four corners to the jug, sloping inwards at the shoulder to a raised neck with waving lip-rim, plain beak spout, angular handle with raised thumb-spur, the exterior body of the jug moulded with vertical fluting against which four roundels are reserved, a narrow band of beading around the shoulder and beaded edges to the handle, the exterior neck moulded with raised flowers and foliage; the exterior of the jug covered all over with silver lustre which has then been decorated using silver resist techniques, the roundels decorated with stylized flowers and foliage which have then been overpainted in blue enamel, the moulded flowers and foliage to the neck picked out in white and then overpainted in blue enamel, the handle, from which most of the silver lustre has worn off, decorated with blue enamel dashes and dots. The spout cracked and repaired.