Casgliadau Arlein

Teapot, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous body and short raised lip-rim, plain curving spout, ear-shaped handle, round domed cover with to the centre a finial modelled in the form of a piece of fruit with a stem and leaves; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the teapot a view of a bird in a landscape, around the rest of the exterior body and the spout scattered floral sprigs with around the upper and lower body borders of blue zig-zags interlaced with gilt festoons, two similar borders around the top of the cover, a gilt line around the foot-rim, a gilt dentil edge to the lip-rim, the lip of the spout and the rim of the cover, the handle picked out in gilt, the finial painted in gilt. The lip of the spout chipped.