Casgliadau Arlein

Soup-plate, pale buff coloured earthenware, circular shape with inset base, deep curving sides and spreading rim; covered all over with a blue tinged white tin-glaze, this then painted in blue with to the centre of the well a Chinese-style scene showing a Chinese figure, a pagoda with a fence in front of it, and a collection of rocks with a smaller pagoda, above the scene is the inscription "E / B * E / E / 1771", a lattice-work border to the rim issuing spreading sprays of flowers, a brown edge to the rim.