Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, lightly potted creamy eathenware with a pearl glaze thinning in places, ovoid body, high straight neck, deep projecting spout, double C-scroll handle with large foliate thumb piece, wide raised centre band and foliate lower section with slight kicked-off terminal. Painted around the body in underglaze blue and in brown and green enamels with a continuous pastoral scene, comprising a man in a wide hat, open waistcoat, breeches and boots ploughing a field, the plough being drawn by two horses in blinkers; another smaller man with a wip, frockcoat and wide floppy hat in the background. Behind the ploughman is a green bank with two thatched cottages, trees and a boundary wall, a fence, and barred gate, with a path into the field. One cottage has a spire-like finial to its round windowed gable. Two more cottages, fences and a willow tree at the other end of the field and flocks of birds in the sky. Painted in brown on one side of the neck 'Iohn Jinken 1793'and on the other side with an elongated foliage spray. Triple banding of brown at the junction of the body and the neck, the rim decorated with an underglaze blue band of cross hatching above a freize of lunettes and florets, and the handle painted with a scroll of brown leaves.