Casgliadau Arlein

Oval or lozenge-shaped dessert dish, greyish paste, standing on a shallow oval foot rim, fluted everted sides and waved rim; the centre painted with a polychrome landscape comprising a narrow rocky river framed by trees looking towards a rock outcrop, perhaps Maenarthur, in an oval frame comprising a blue line edged with gold and blue sprays, rim with pendant leaves in gilt below blue band and gilt dentil edge.

Dysgl sy’n rhan o set lestri pwdin tri deg saith darn a gomisiynwyd gan y perchennog tir o Sir Aberteifi, Thomas Johnes (1748-1816). £63 oedd y gost ar y pryd, ac ar ddiwedd y ddeunawfed ganrif dyma’r set ddrytaf o’i bath i gael ei chynhyrchu yn Derby. Ar bob un o’r llestri paentiwyd golygfa o’r tŷ a’r gerddi newydd ar ystâd Johnes, yr Hafod.