Casgliadau Arlein

Tea bowl, greyish hybrid-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with around the centre of the exterior body a border of rococo scrolls on which stand figures, an urn and pillars, a gilt edge to the lip-rim. Saucer, greyish hybrid-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with to the centre of the well a design of rococo scrolls on which stand a figure, a winged mythological creature and a parrot, a gilt edge to the rim. The foot-rim chipped.