Casgliadau Arlein

Stand, hard-paste porcelain, tray-like form with flat rear and shaped front, standing on a tapering foot-rim, curving sides, to the well two sunken circles to hold the sand-sifter and inkpot, towards the rear a vertical handle in the form of a hollow architechtural column moulded with fluting around its base and swags around its upper part; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the well and the column scattered sprays and sprigs of flowers, the column painted with green fluting and puce swags, to the rim of the stand a border of looping gilt lines, gilt lines around the sunken circles, the edge of the well, the column and the edge of the rim. Inkpot, hard-paste porcelain, roughly cylindrical form with a bulbous band around the middle of the body and a shaped and sloping edge to the lip-rim, the sides moulded with around the lower body a band of leaves, flower heads around the centre of the body and fluting above; painted in polychrome enamels with around the centre of the body floral sprigs and puce flower heads, the fluting picked out in green, the lip-im picked out in puce, gilt lines around the foot-rim, the middle of the body and the lip-rim. Sand-sifter, hard-paste porcelain, roughly cylindrical form with a bulbous band around the middle of the body and a shaped and sloping edge to the lip-rim, flat top perforated with holes, the sides moulded with around the lower body a band of leaves, flower heads around the centre of the body and fluting above; painted in polychrome enamels with around the centre of the body floral sprigs and puce flower heads, the fluting picked out in green, the lip-im picked out in puce, gilt lines around the foot-rim and lip-rim.