Casgliadau Arlein

This decorative salt-glazed stoneware tankard can hold up to three pints of liquid.

The moulded and impressed ornamentation shows natural motifs. This is an example of the Victorian Gothic revival style, which was popular in both architecture and decorative arts at the time.

The designer, John Pollard Seddon, was a prominent architect in Wales. He collaborated on projects such as the Old College of Aberystwyth University, and the Victorian restoration of Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff. The Fulham Pottery employed creative specialists, like Seddon, during the time Charles Irvine Conyngham Bailey was in charge (1864 to 1889).

Tankard, salt-glazed buff stoneware, flat base, tapering conical body with inset elongated vertical panels with alternating decoration of impressed leaves and clustered dots, above and below these bands of foliage moulded in relief, columnar handle with incised spiral band attached to the handles by angular returns with moulded scale pattern and foliate terminals, foot, rim and other details painted in underglaze blue.