Casgliadau Arlein

Tea bowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, tea bowl simple hemispherical shape, standing on a shallow footring, flared sides, everted lip; decorated in polychrome enamels, the side with a butterfly with brown head and fore wings, yellow rear wings and grey banded thorax, flying away from viewer, above a band of foliage in greens and brown, opposite a spray of foliage in a similar palette, gilt line at lip and foot. The saucer also standing on a shallow footring, spreading body, everted lip, decorated in the centre with a fly in red, browns and inkly violet, perched in a spray of foliage, two single leaves above, gilt line at rim.