Casgliadau Arlein

Small octagonal plate, earthenware, standing on a narrow foot rim, cushion-moulded sides, flaring to form eight sided rim; the outer rim reeded, the rim moulded with daisies, the open flower heads closely spaced, with eight larger daisies at the corner points; transfer printed in green in the centre with a coat of arms, the shield per cross with an hour glass dexter chief, crossed keys, sinister chief, a beehive, dexter base and a lion statant with banner, sinister base; the cross over-painted in pink, a Latin motto on a scroll beneath the shield; the whole, surmounted by an open palmed hand with sprigs to either side, surmounted in turn by a single eye within radiating rays and surrounded by clouds; the shield, resting on a plinth with three female figures surrounding, one with a yellow painted skirt and blue veil, holding a small child with two further children around her skirt, another, in a pink dress with an anchor and a third kneeling, with a blue skirt and green veil, holding a cross; the plinth, with small shields to either side of a scene of a square rigged sailing ship, a female figure and two indistinct figures standing to the side of a male figure, possibly in Native American-type dress studying an unfurled parchment with another male figure, with a large lion's head to the side; all rising from a single marbled pillar, a streak of yellow running across the width of the pillar below the plinth; with green banding to outer reeded rim with small patches of blue.