Casgliadau Arlein

Patch box or snuff box, pale cream-coloured earthenware with a greeny-yellow tinge to the glaze, in the form of the head of a female figure wearing a ribboned bonnet over her hair, a round domed screw-on lid fits onto the bottom of the neck; painted in red and black enamels, the face picked out in red and black, the hair painted black, the bonnet picked out in black with a red ribbon around it, the lid painted with a spray of stylized red and black flowers. The underside of the lid chipped and cracked.