Casgliadau Arlein

Teacup and saucer, mixed or duck egg paste, both with a distinct green translucency; the cup standing on a rounded foot rim, London shape tapering and angled sides, thick curvaceous ogee shaped handle; conventional shaped saucer on a shallow foot rim; the cup decorated on the interior with a broad band of underglaze blue, streaked and clouded in places, with two groups of red and white chrysanthemum heads and gilt foliage and scrolls between two oval reserves of flowers on a white ground, the exterior with two pale blue pierced rocks and a bird and other flowers and foliage above an oriental fence. The saucer is similarly decorated with three oval reserves of flowers and with the pale blue rocks etc in the centre within a salmon pink border embellished with gilt foliage. Swansea set pattern 219.