Casgliadau Arlein

Tray, hard-paste porcelain, oval form with tapering foot-rim and curving sides, a shaped edge to the rim which to either end of the tray extends to form twin solid handles curled over at the ends, to the centre of either side of the tray the rim rises into a pointed lobe; the interior of the tray covered with a light brown ground in imitation of the grain of wood, against which is reserved to the centre of the tray an oval panel finely painted in black monochrome with a landscape showing a complex of overgrown buildings by the side of a river with in the foreground two small figures and a number of boats drawn up on the shore and in the background a small windmill, around the the rim and the handles a running border of miniature forget-me-nots between two gilt lines. A narrow crack to the base of the tray.