Casgliadau Arlein

Bowl in hard paste porcelain with raised footring, the body a rounded ogee shape, the upper body flaring and with an upturned rim; the exterior is painted in polychrome enamels with two 'Mandarin' style genre scenes, one of tea being served in an interior, the other showing a scholar standing at a table outside a pagoda with an attendant, these are framed by a simple black line border, between these are two areas of a diaper pattern in black enamel, with three reserves, at the centre is a large reserve framed with a red enamel border with scrolling 'T' pattern in gilt, in which is a landscape composition in orange enamel, above and below this are two small cartouches with scroll borders in black enamel, framing stylised branches and foliage in orange enamel, at the interior rim is a simple stylised flower border in black and red enamel with a band of gilt beneath, at the interior base is a single flower painted freely in puce.