Casgliadau Arlein

Ice-cream pail, cover and liner, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale green translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge, and patch of darker green on underside. The pail tub-shaped, standing on three bun feet (each with a central hole), rounded base and straight sides, rounded lip, two rectangular handles with spreading grooved terminals; painted on either side above a gilt line with a spray of pink and white mallow (Lavatera trimestris) and with an orange nasturtium (Tropaelium majus), both amid grasses, the upper part decorated with a continuous band of hatched and shaded gilding, comprising fluted vases with conical covers alternating with arabesques, floriate scrolls and florets between gilt lines, the feet gilt, and the handles gilded with bell-flowers in line and dot borders. The cover with a projecting rim and shallow flange, upstanding gallery or collar, and double loop scroll handles; painted with the gallery with pink and white aquilegia, the exterior of the gallery decorated in gilding as the upper part of the pail, theinterior with a simpler pattern of scrolls, foliage and diaper panels, running leaf pattern in gilding to the rim, the handle gilded as those of the pail. Plain bowl-shaped liner, standing on a shallow grooved foot rim, steep sides, and everted rim with gilt line border.