Casgliadau Arlein

Vase, bone china, with a cream translucency and partially finely crackled glaze; standing on a square plinth base, trumpet-shaped pedestal foot, ovoid body with an upright flared neck and everted lip; two handles attached at the shoulder, formed by volute scrolls enclosing embossed swans and sides moulded with palmette and foliate motifs, terminating with a moulded overlapping palmette; one side painted with a spray of growing wild flowers including primroses, foxgloves, and bluebells; other side painted with a gilt swan within a matt gilt circle, flanked by two cornucopiae with trailing leaves and berries above and below, and two gilt anthemions below; marble effect painted plinth, gilt bands and foliate scrolls to the pedestal foot and neck, solid gilt ground to the lower part of the body, handles gilded with burnished and matt areas with the embossed swans left white.