Casgliadau Arlein

Centre dessert dish, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a greenish translucency, and slight grey-green tinge to the glaze; round, on a stepped pedestal foot, and stem rising to a collar and flange; shallow bowl with everted rim in six small and six large lobes moulded with the standard 'Nantgarw' C-scrolls, flowers, foliage and love knots, two rectangular up-turned double-curved handles moulded with three spreading grooves; painted in polychrome enamels with three pink roses on the foot, and with a pink poppy and a spray of forget-me-nots on either side of the bowl, the rim painted with a spray of strawberries and with five sprays of flowers, a spray of two pink roses in the centre.