Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a rounded spreading foot-rim, pear-shaped body with slightly flaring lip-rim, triangular beak spout with foliate moulding to the underside, plain loop handle issuing moulded leaves onto the jug from the upper and lower terminal, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a flower with a stem and leaves, the stem broken off; finely painted in puce with to the front of the exterior body of the jug a classical landscape with ruined pillars and two figures by the side of a tree, the landscape bordered around the bottom by a wreath of leaves in green enamel, around the rest of the exterior body of the jug the occasional scattered foliate sprig in puce, to the top of the cover a smaller landscape with a hut and a small figure by the side of a river, the landscape again bordered around the bottom by a wreath of leaves in green enamel, worn gilt edges to the lip-rim of the jug and the rim of the cover, the spout picked out in gilt, the moulded leaves around the terminals of the handles painted in gilt, the flower finial painted in puce, green, brown and gilt. The handle broken and repaired.