Casgliadau Arlein

Kraak ware dish of hard-paste porcelain, translucent round the rim; glazed on both sides, white on the obverse, pale blue on the reverse; standing on a tapering footrim, with cushion-moulded sides and spreading lightly notched rim; painted in underglaze blue: in the well, an octagonal panel edged with eight sections shaped like curly brackets and with alternating scale and swastika-fret patterns; the panel itself containing two geese beside a river with a third in flight amid stylised rockwork and leafy fronds; the rim painted with eight radiating panels charged alternately with flowers and symbolic objects and separated by narrower panels moulded in relief and featuring a knot motif in a reserve against alternately scale and swastika grounds; the reverse painted very schematically with six radiating panels containing circles; chatter marks around the inside of the footrim.