Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, eathenware, standing on a rounded slightly spreading foot-rim, bulbous body with fluted sides, tapering inwards at the shoulder and flaring out to the mouth, wide shallow spout, loop handle moulded with a foliate pattern, the sides decorated with raised moulded flower heads, foliage, butterflies and a design of scrolls, a pewter rim around the mouth with above the handle a hinge, to which the cover, which is now broken off, was once attached, the cover pewter, a roughly flat oval shape with a pattern of ridges and grooves radiating out from the hinge, to the cover above the hinge a small raised moulded handle; the moulded decorations to the sides of the jug overpainted in blue, yellow, and pink and highlighted in gilt which is now very worn, the handle painted blue and with traces of gilt.