Casgliadau Arlein

Jug, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a rounded spreading foot-rim, pear-shaped body, beak spout with moulded scrolls to the underside, double-curved scrolled handle with raised moulding to the shoulder, domed cover with a pineapple finial to the top; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to one side of the exterior body of the jug a small rustic scene showing a male and female figure dressed in peasant costume, a child seated on a barrel and a bird-house on a post, to the other side of the body a small scene showing a seated female figure and a kneeling child, the top of the cover painted with scattered sprigs of naturalistic flowers, the lip-rim of the jug and the spout edged in gilt, the handle picked out in gilt, a gilt dentil border to the rim of the cover and a gilt band around the base of the finial.