Casgliadau Arlein

Tureen, earthenware, urn-shaped, standing on a short spreading pedestal foot with lobed foot-rim, bulbous body sloping inwards at the shoulder before flaring out to a lobed lip-rim, to either side of the body twin horizontal loop handles modelled in the form of a spray of foliage, high domed cover, the top of the cover moulded with a spray of leaves and a large raised cabbage finial; transfer-printed in blue with the 'Damask border' pattern, to the exterior sides and interior bottom of the tureen a scene showing two figures standing in an Italianate landscape with trees, an aquaduct, a distant village and mountains, to the foot, interior lip-rim and the rim of the cover a wide border with a watered blue ground between a band of small scrolls and a band of foliate scrolls enclosing small panels with figures and animals, a scaled down version of this border to the exterior lip-rim, handles and the flower bud to the top of the cover, the moulded leaves to the top of the cover outlined in blue. A crack to one side of the tureen, the flower bud to the top of the cover broken off and repaired.