Casgliadau Arlein

Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze. The cup standing on a shallow rounded foot, tub-shaped with slightly flared lip, high kidney-shaped and scrolled handle, distorted to left; shallow saucer with flat unglazed base. The cup decorated with a gilt band at the foot and lip, the lower part of the exterior white, with a gilt band of loops and rays, the remainder with an unevenly applied blue-green ground ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with two oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads; the interior with a broad gilt line at the lip above a band of pendant loops, rays and dots, and painted with a bouquet of garden flowers in the centre, outer face of handle gilded. The saucer painted with three oval reserves of flowers on the oeil de perdrix rim, the centre reserved with a bouquet of flowers within a gilded border of loops and rays.