Casgliadau Arlein

Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a spreading foot moulded with curving flutes, globular body sloping inwards at the shoulder to a cylindrical neck, a band of moulded arcading around the lower body, rounded lip-rim, curving spout modelled in the form of an animal head with a mask of a human face to the base, loop handle modelled in the form of a snake, round domed cover with flat collar-like rim, a pine cone finial to the top of the cover; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the coffee pot a large spray of naturalistic flowers, further floral and foliate sprigs around the rest of the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt, a gilt edge to the lip-rim of the coffee pot, a chocolate edge to the rim of the cover, the finial picked out in puce. The foot-rim of the coffee pot damaged and repaired.