Casgliadau Arlein

Cream jug, soft-paste 'duck-egg' porcelain, green translucency and a grey-green tinge to the pitted glaze, rectangular 'London' shape with rounded corners, pronounced mould lines, wide elongated spout, high lop handle with top thumb spur, and double ridge collar moulding. Decorated on each side with an on-glaze transfer-print comprising a seated Chinese figure, surrounded by five standing figures of attendants within a landscape of buildings and trees, including a river with European style houses in the background, all overpainted in blue, green, red, purple, brown, orange, grey and black enamels, band of gilt foliage to the shoulders, within the lip a gilt border of scrolled reserves containing small iron red landscapes alternating with larger polychrome scenes of birds on branches; gilt line to the foot, handle and spout partly gilded.