Casgliadau Arlein

Centre dessert dish, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a greenish translucency, and almost colourless glaze; round, on a stepped pedestal foot, and stem with 18 flutes rising to a collar and flange; shallow bowl with everted rim in six small and six large lobes moulded with the standard 'Nantgarw' C-scrolls, flowers, foliage and love knots, two rectangular up-turned double-curved handles moulded with three spreading grooves; painted in polychrome enamels with a Horned Indian Pheasant in a landscape in the centre, and with a Demoiselle of Numidia and an American Godwit on the exterior, the rim decorated with the following vignettes, a rose bush; a pineapple and other fruits; a bouquet of flowers; tulips; flowers, fruit and vegetables; a bouquet of flowers; painted on either side of the handles with a group of fruit and a bouquet of flowers; gilt dentil line to lip, gilt band to foot, stem with gilt lines and laurel sprays, gilded handles.