Casgliadau Arlein

Large family coach black and yellow paintwork. Leather covered luggage cases, 2 candle lamps, double upholstered seat behind the body, facing forwards, 2 windows in the front panel and 1 in each door with shutters for all.

Interior The interior is upholstered in cream wool and pale yellow silk with horsehair stuffing, linen scrim stuffing covers and trimmed with broad lace, and thinner pasting/seaming laces. The broad lace is a floral design and the pasting lace is a simple spiral both are woven wool and cotton. The front panel has windows and blinds at the top, a large flapped pocket underneath with a tasselled glass string which is attached to the window frame via an ivory fixing and hangs down over the pocket. Below there are 3 square shaped foot rests with wool on top and leather inside, which fold down and are, held up with ivory tabs. The doors are covered in wool with horse hair stuffing, each have a window with pasting lace sewn around the frame. There is a wide but narrow flapped pocket, and a glass string. There is a cut away in the lower part of the door to accommodate the steps when they are folded. The steps fold out to create 2 standing surfaces which are covered in baroque patterned wool carpet with flexible sides of cream wool over leather; the top of the step is upholstered in wool and stuffed with horsehair.

On each side there is a quilted upper panel covered in silk with horse hair stuffing and silk covered buttons, the quarter squabs below are not quilted, their covered in cream wool as are the arm rests which sit between the two panels. Between the door and side panels are pillar holders and hanging holders; long strips of broad lace with silk backing and padding inside, attached at the top and bottom to form long loops. There are tassels on the bottoms of the pillar holders and toggles near the top of the hanging holders.

On the back wall there is an upper panel of yellow quilted silk with a window flap in the centre. The back squab is also quilted silk, the loose seat cushions are made from horse hair with silk on the top side and wool on the underside and edges. The ceiling is covered in wool with broad lace covering the join with the panels. The main part of the carpet on the floor is missing but it remains on the steps and thresholds. Underneath the seat is a pleated wool valance with linen backing, it is shaped to fit over the thresholds and the hem is trimmed with broad lace. Only 2 blinds on the front windows remain intact, they are made from red silk and fit snugly onto metal silk covered rollers which clip into brackets either side of the window. One of these blinds still has a silk tassel sewn in the centre; there are 2 loose tassels inside the coach but it not clear where they belong. The door rollers are missing their silk blinds. Cream upholstered interior, wooden frames and horse hair stuffing.