Casgliadau Arlein

Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a rounded spreading waisted foot, the body bulbous at the shoulder then sloping inwards to a cylindrical neck, the foot moulded with raised leaves and a beaded edge, reeding around the lower body and shoulder, the neck moulded with a ropework band, raised swags over curving flutes and raised flower heads, curving ropework spout modelled with a ram's head to the base, high loop ropework handle modelled with a ram's head to the lower terminal, round domed cover with raised moulded leaves around the base of the finial; the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover covered all over with a blue ground over which has been painted an elaborate gilt decoration creating a mesh-like pattern with blue dots showing through, the moulded areas painted gilt apart from the moulded swags around the neck of the coffee pot which have been painted in a very pale blue-yellow colour, to either side of the exterior body of the coffee pot are reserved, to the upper and lower body, a white oval panel painted in polychrome enamels with a group of fruit including lemons, grapes and apples, these panels enclosed by borders of gilt stylized flower heads, gilt bands around the foot-rim, shoulder, lip-rim, and the rim of the cover, the spout and handle painted in gilt. The finial broken off and replaced with a twisted ball finial in blue. several cracks to the neck of the coffee pot.