Casgliadau Arlein

Teapot, soft-paste porcelain, short cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous body, short raised lip-rim, plain curving spout, ear-shaped handle, round domed cover with to the centre a finial modelled in the form of a flower head with leaves; the exterior body of the teapot and the top of the cover covered with a deep underglaze blue ground against which are reserved to either side of the teapot and the cover panels left white and decorated in gilt with birds and floral sprays, the panels enclosed by floral garlands, trellises and scrolls in gilt, gilt dentil borders around the foot-rim, lip-rim, the lip of the spout, and the rim of the cover, a gilt bird to the underside of the spout, the handle and flower head finial picked out in gilt. The lip of the spout chipped, the handle broken and repaired.