Casgliadau Arlein

Dish, in the form of a tondino, with a deep cavetto and wide everted rim, foot rim pierced with two holes, buff earthenware, coated with an opaque blue-white tin-glaze and painted, the centre with Ceres after a design by Alfred Stevens reserved on an ochre ground within a bound wreath, the rim manganese and white strapwork containing at the top a crowned shield bearing the plant badges of the United Kingdom flanked by recumbent putti; two bearded masks at the side and a wreathed head below, entwined with trailing foliage and fruit, all on blue ground, ochre lip, the reverse with radiating stylised foliage.