Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a rounded foot-rim, pear-shaped body, triangular beak spout with foliate moulding to the underside, loop handle with foliate moulding and raised thumb-spur, round high domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a flower head with stem and leaves; finely painted in puce with to either side of the exterior body a view of European birds perched on spreading branches, smaller views of birds to the top of the cover, scattered butterflies around the rest of the exterior body of the jug, the underside of the spout and the top of the cover, gilt lines around the exterior lip-rim of the jug and the rim of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt, the finial picked out in puce and gilt. The tip of the spout chipped.