Casgliadau Arlein

Tea bowl, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides; painted in overglaze 'famille rose' enamels with around the exterior sides two landscapes with figures seated in gardens separated by vertical borders containing birds perched on branches in cartouches surrounded by a puce diaper ground, to the interior bottom of the bowl an orange sprig, around the interior lip-rim a narrow border of circles and dots in red, a gilt edge to the lip-rim has mostly worn off.