Casgliadau Arlein

Bowl of pale buff earthenware, standing on a narrow, rounded foot rim, the sides, rounded and spreading, rising and ending in a thick, rounded outer lip rim, the central well with a depression with a rounded central knop; the exterior sides unglazed, with prominent throwing rings, some creamy-white slip extending below the outer rim, in some places dripping down the exterior sides; the interior, coated with the creamy-white slip, to the rim, a sgraffito border, revealing the buff body, of a band of continous ovoid spirals, between double concentric banding, the spirals with a green glaze wash, with spreading rich brown glaze dots above and below with green to the outer rim and to the central well; the slip discoloured in patches, the whole extensively cracked and repaired with restoration to a section of the outer rim.