Casgliadau Arlein

Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, standing on a tapered foot rim, rounded, cushion-moulded sides, forming a wide central well and an upwardly sloping rim; covered with a yellow-tinged white tin-glaze and decorated in underglaze blue, brown, yellow and green with, in the centre, a repeated motif of twin triangular sloping roofed houses in the Dutch style, with smoke emerging from large central chimneys, the houses separated by a large leaf-type motif, issuing foliate sprigs; the scene surrounded by foliage and surmounted by large clouds all within three thin blue bands surmounted in turn by a border of dark blue and dark green brush-work motifs on a scalloped brown band; the rim with six oval panels containing fruit and foliage, interspersed with brown lattice work with blue banding above and below; on the underside, in underglaze blue, a large circle, resembling a clock face, of alternating circles and parallel lines with L-shaped brush strokes to the base of the central well.