Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, creamy earthenware, deeply blued pearl-glaze, pooled, crazed and patchy; thinly potted; barrel-shaped body with recessed base, deep lip-spout, slightly upturned, with an acanthus moulded lower section and conventional bell-shaped floral attachment, plain loop handle with acanthus moulded terminals; underglaze decoration comprising paired bands of blue-grey slip at the base, the waist and the lip, each containing a running pattern of beads, outlined in a brown colour and reserved against a ground of another brown, the ground tan and the beads chocolate at the lip and base, and these colours reversed at the waist.