Casgliadau Arlein

Teapot, hard-paste porcelain, inset base, bulbous body, short straight spout with foliate moulding to the underside, scrolled loop handle with a moulded leaf at the shoulder and several inner and outer spurs lower down, round slightly domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a rose with a stem and leaf, a pierced steam hole to one side; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the teapot a European bird perched on a spreading branch, two floral sprigs to the top of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in puce, a gilt edge to the rim of the cover, the rose finial picked out in puce and gilt. A narrow crack to one side of the upper body of the teapot, the tip of the spout broken and repaired.