Casgliadau Arlein

Centre dish, clear white translucency, glaze with slight grey-green tinge, the underside of the foot wiped, and the glaze shrinking back with the stem. Circular form, standing on a shallow spreading stepped foot, short columnar collared stem swelling to a flange, shallow bowl, the rim moulded in six large and six small lobes and with the standard 'Nantgarw' moulding of C-scrolls, ribbon-tied foliage wreaths and florets. The foot decorated with a broad gilt line, and with a band of gilt trefoils and ermine tails on its upper surface, the lower part of the stem with seeded and gilt diaper panels and flowering plants, all in gilding, gilt line on either side of the collar, and the flange gilded. The outside of the bowl undecorated, and the lip gilded; the centre painted with a pink rose with foliage and two buds issuing from a shallow two-handled krater in dark green enamel, and detailed in stippled gilding.