Casgliadau Arlein

Cup, earthenware, standing on a spreading rounded waisted foot-rim, bowl-shaped body with curving sides, the handle broken off; transfer-printed in green with to the exterior sides of the bowl the 'Amoy' pattern, a small chinoiserie-style landscape with figures taking tea in the foreground, behind them are trees and a pagoda-like building, to one side of the scene across an expanse of water are buildings on islands, a scaled down version of the same scene to the interior bottom of the bowl, border to the interior sides of the bowl of garlands of foliage interspersed with flower heads, the foot-rim chipped.