Casgliadau Arlein

Pot-lid, earthenware, circular shape with convex top, the flange and underside of the lid obscurerd by the frame; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'Ann Hathaway's Cottage' (although this exact title is not recorded on the lid), showing a rural scene with a male figure leading a pony and driving sheep in the foreground, and a thatched cottage in the background, around the bottom of the scene is the inscription "THE RESIDENCE OF ANN HATHAWAY, SHAKSPEARES WIFE, SHOTTERY, NR STRATFORD ON AVON", the print enclosed by a circular pearl dot border. The glaze crazed. The pot-lid mounted for display in a close-fitting circular ceramic frame painted red.