Casgliadau Arlein

Vase; inverted pear-shaped body, slightly flared foot, waisted neck and flared lip. Body in reddish-brown stoneware impressed with a pattern of spirals of various sizes. On front, an applied oval medallion, in cameo form, of the head of Benjamin Disraeli in profile facing left, in greenish white stoneware and a blue/green oval, surrounded by a garland of applied buff-coloured S-petaled flowers. Beneath a blue/green scrolled ribbon nearing the words `1804 HIS FAVOURITE FLOWER 1881' in various area of the body more applied buff-coloured flowers, either singly or in groups of two or three.