Casgliadau Arlein

Centre dish, clear white translucency, glaze with slight yellowish tinge, especially where it has bubbled around the mouldings and in the centre, the underside of the foot unglazed. Circular form, standing on a shallow spreading stepped foot, columnar collared stem swelling to a flange, shallow bowl, the rim moulded in six large and six small lobes and with the standard 'Nantgarw' moulding of C-scrolls, ribbon-tied foliage wreaths and florets. The foot decorated with a band of dark green enamel and with gilding, the lower part of the stem banded with a gilt scroll and anthemion pattern, gilt band on either side of the collar, and the flange gilded. The outside of the bowl painted in enamels with five sprays of garden flowers, and the lip gilded, three flower sprays painted within the raised mouldings on the rim and seven others scattered over the surface of the bowl.