Casgliadau Arlein

Dish and cover, earthenware, standing on a tapered square foot rim, the body of rounded square form, steep sided with wide shelving rim, the twin handles, everted rounded rectangles integral to the rim; the cover, of quatrefoil form, slightly indented at all four corners and rising to a domed centre with an oak leaf form finial with curved stalk; transfer-printed in blue with the 'Colandine' pattern, in the centre of the dish with an ornate pagoda-style building in the centre with a flight of steps to the front with a figure descending holding a heart shaped banner on a staff, in the foreground, an imari style floral spray emerging from a wave and rock formation with an ornate trellised fence emerging from the pagoda, surmounted on one side of the pagoda with a vase issuing flowers and shrubs and to the other with a smaller building, and a tree with flowered branches, in the distance, an expanse of water with a two sailed boat; to the rim, sprays of imari style flowers and flowered branches with daisy or crysanthemum type blooms, on a trellis work ground with a single flower head on a blue ground reserved in each corner; the handles with a pale blue ground, one with imari style flowers, the other with flowered branches; the underside of the dish with a repetion of the border pattern in four oblong panels, three with the imari style flowers, one with the flowered branches; the cover with the central scene repeated to cover the domed section and the finial with a repeat of the border pattern to the lower sides.