Casgliadau Arlein

Plate, Nantgarw porcelain, press-moulded, white body with good clear translucency and lustrous glaze, slight grey tinge, standing on a shallow foot ring speckled with black, plain rim, the lip moulded in six large and six small lobes; painted in the centre with a bouquet of pink and red roses, convolvulus and other flowers, within an elaborate gilt cartouche in the cavetto comprising C-scrolls, scallops, and diaper quatrefoils; the rim elaborately decorated with four lobed reserves painted with landscapes, each containing a ruin on a hill, alternating with oval reserves, two painted with exotic pheasants in a landscape, and two with fruit in an architectural setting of columns, all linked with crimson fictive drapery, edged with foliate gilt scrolls, deckel gilding to lip.