Casgliadau Arlein

Large jar, of porcellaneous stoneware, standing on a broad, slightly tapered foot rim, globular body, short, slightly everted collar neck; the foot rim and lower body with a dark brown glaze, the remaining upper body with a dark honey coloured glaze, the lip rim, a pale creamy colour, smooth and unglazed; the body painted centrally with a galloping horse in dark brown, a stocky cob type animal with feathered fetlocks, a lighter, chestnut mane and tail both freely flowing and an expressive face, the lower portions left in the dark honey colour with a large, white tinged eye; the animal surrounded by freely painted spiralling thick lines in dark brown, the glaze highly crazed throughout.