Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, grey salt-glaze stoneware, partly decorated in underglaze blue, rounded foot, short cabled stem, baluster body, the lower part carved with straps and gadroons below a columned arcade containing three quarter-length figures of the Seven Electors holding their coats of arms; 1. Archbishop of Trier, 2. Archbishop of Cologne, 3. Archbishop of Mainz, 4. The Holy Roman Emperor as King of Bohemia, 5. Count Palatine, 6. Duke of Saxony, 7. Margrave of Brandenburg, shoulders incised with foliate scrolls in heart-shaped reserves and with gadroons, between engine-turned diaper panels, neck moulded with three oval medallions of classical heads between panels of grotesques, grooved strap handle with small terminal, stepped domed cover, hinged, with a collared bead finial and shell thumbpiece.