Casgliadau Arlein

Teapot, blue jasper (dry-bodied stoneware), inset base, the sides bulbous at the lower body then sloping gently inwards, engine-turned vertical banding to the lower body, curving handle with reeding along its length and foliate moulding around its base, plain loop handle with reeding along its length and foliate moulding to the upper and lower terminals, round domed cover with flat collar-like rim, an acorn-shaped finial to the top of the cover, a pierced steam hole to the centre of the finial, engine-turned vertical banding radiates out from the finial to the rim, the cover 'tied' to the teapot by means of a metal chain attached at one end to the finial and at the other end to the handle, the teapot decorated with sprigged white jasper reliefs showing to one side of the body a serpent coiled round an altar, the figure of an amorini, and several small urns, and to the other side of the body an amorini seated upon a mythical beast with the head of a lion and the tail of a sea creature, a merman blowing a horn and another sea creature, the rim of the cover sprigged in white jasper with small foliate motifs, white jasper leaves radiate out from the finial; unglazed.