Casgliadau Arlein

Shallow bowl or dish, of pale stone-paste, standing on a roughly finished tapering foot rim, spreading, rounded sides, ending in an uneven and chipped outer rim; painted on either side of the central well with two large fish, mirror images of one another, painted in outline in under glaze dark brown, both with large eyes of two concentric circles and with scales on the upper backs and below the eye area, with two feathered fins on the upper back and two on the lower body with curved and feathered tails, the unscaled portions coloured with washes of bright under glaze blue, surrounded with large stylised sprigs of foliage and berries interspersed with smaller scrolled motifs, all in dark brown and filled and detailed with the same bright under glaze blue, the whole covered in a very glassy and thick transparent glaze, much pitted on the underside.