Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, creamy grey salt-glaze stoneware, partly decorated in underglaze blue, rounded foot (probably originally mounted in pewter), short stem, baluster body, gadrooned below an arcade of eight figure panels, depicting the parable of the Good Samaritan, 1. three figures before a city, possibly Christ, the lawyer, and another; 2. the traveller leaving Jerusalem; 3. the traveller recumbent, being wounded and stripped by two thieves; 4. the traveller lying wounded, two figures passing by (either the thieves or the priest and another); 5. as 4, two other figures (Levite and ?priest); 6. the traveller comforted by the Samaritan; 7. the Samaritan lifts the traveller on to his horse; 8. the Samaritan leads his horse to a city; moulded ribs above and below. Punched and incised strap and shell panels to the shoulders, the neck ornamented with alternating rosettes and diamonds. Strap handle with rolled terminal, shallow stepped pewter cover, hinged and with shell thumbpiece (detatched, and perhaps from another piece).