Casgliadau Arlein

Dish, hard-paste porcelain, oval shape with straight-sided foot-rim and curving sides, a shaped lobed edge to the rim; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the interior of the dish a criss-cross pattern of festoons of flowers tied to either end of the dish by a purple ribbon and with a European bird perched on a festoon to the centre, a slightly worn gilt edge to the rim. The foot-rim slightly chipped.