Casgliadau Arlein

Shell-shaped dessert dish, soft-paste 'duck-egg' porcelain, greenish translucency and a grey-green tinge to the glaze; standing on a shallow foot, rim moulded with four large and five small lobes, triangular handle with ribs in relief. Decorated in the centre with an on-glaze transfer-print comprising a seated Chinese figure, surrounded by five standing figures of attendants within a landscape of buildings and trees, including a river with European style houses in the background, all overpainted in blue, green, red, purple, brown, orange, grey and black enamels, gilt border around the cavetto of scrolled reserves containing small iron red landscapes alternating with larger polychrome scenes of birds on branches, except opposite the handle where the cartouche is painted with the crest of a boar chained to a holly tree on blue and gold mantling above a scroll inscribed with the motto 'Y Dduw Bor Diolch' for Lloyd of Bronwydd.