Casgliadau Arlein

Dessert dish, round, Swansea 'duck egg' paste, greenish translucency, slight green tinge to the glaze, heavily potted, prominent foot rim, cruciform moulding of four large and four small lobes; centre painted in polychrome enamels with a basket woven in lattice and vertical wicker, overflowing with garden flowers, on a background of earth, grass and flowering plants; cavetto with a border of scrolled and seeded gilding, rim painted with three butterflies within a gilt dentil border.