Casgliadau Arlein

Butter dish and cover, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency , lustrous glaze. Circular, tubbed-shaped body, standing on a shallow reccessed base, flattened domed lid with a (restored) pinecone finial. Sides decorated with a gilt line a narrow band of pendant loops and rays, below an unevenly applied blue-green ground ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with three oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads, the cover similarly decorated, the oeil de perdrix ground reserved with three oval panels of flowers around a central circular reserve containing a band of flowers around the base of the gilded finial, and edged with the loop and ray border used on the lower part of the butter dish.