Casgliadau Arlein

Pepper pot, hard-paste porcelain, rococo form, standing on a round domed foot moulded with scrolls, to the underside of the foot a round stopper moulded into a twisted peak, bulbous lower body, slightly bulbous upper body, rounded top decorated with perforated holes in flower head patterns, to either side of the lower body raised moulded scrolls form a cartouche around a roughly oval panel, a band of raised moulded scrolls around the upper body; finely painted with to the panels to either side of the lower body riverside landscapes in puce, the scrolls enclosing the panels picked out in gilt, around the rest of the exterior body four scattered floral or foliate sprigs in purple, the raised moulded scrolls to the foot and upper body picked out in gilt, some of the perforations to the top of the pot edged in gilt.