Casgliadau Arlein

Vegetable dish, earthenware, square shape with straight-sided foot-rim, curving sides and spreading rim, a raised edge around the well, two solid horizontal angular handles extend from the rim to either side of the dish, square domed cover with to the centre a finial moulded in the form of a raised curving foliate scroll; transfer-printed in blue with the 'Colandine' pattern, to the top of the cover and the centre of the well a Chinese-style scene with in the foreground a wave-shaped outcrop of rocks from which issues a spreading flowering bush, behind an ornately gabled pagoda and a more simple pagoda from which issues a spreading flowering tree, border to the rim of the dish and the rim of the cover of spreading flowering branches and a fence-like design in a blue ground, to the exterior sides of the dish the border pattern is repeated in four separate panels, to the handles and to the finial four spreading flowering branches.