Casgliadau Arlein

Tureen and cover, white coloured earthenware with pearl glaze, standing on a high pedestal base with flat foot-ring, the tureen is circular, shallow and with a open dish-like profile and flaring lip, flange to the inner lip, the cover with a central dome surmounted with a stylised pine cone finial; the stem, interior and exterior tureen bowl and the exterior cover with a blue soufflé ground, one large circular cartouche in reserve on the inner bowl of the tureen hand painted in polychrome enamels with a tiger in a hilly landscape, three reserve cartouches around the cover, each with a hand-painted dog in wooded landscapes(greyhound; foxhound and Spanish pointer) in polychrome overglaze enamels, the foot is white with a band of gilding, additional bands of gilding to the rim, flange, edge of the cover and around each cartouche, gilded details to finial.