Casgliadau Arlein

Plate, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze, the underside with black specks and with pin holes, shallow foot, rim moulded in six large and six small lobes, with standard Nantgarw C-scrolls, ribbon-tied sprays and florets in relief. The rim with an underglaze blue ground, the mouldings gilded, white cavetto, the centre painted within a narrow circular frame of tooled gilding with a 17th century Flemish pastoral genre scene, comprising a man in violet-grey jacket and a brown hat, leaning on a wall talking to a seated woman dressed in a red bodice and blue skirt, tree-crowned cliff behind, pile of oak logs in the foreground with recumbent cattle and sheep beyond and to right, river and hills in the background.