Casgliadau Arlein

Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; the cup standing on a foot rim with a curved base and a straight sided bowl; ear-shaped loop handle; the saucer with a foot rim curving into spreading sides; both decorated with an Empire-style pattern of continuous scrolling leaves in green and iron red, with gilt stems bearing pink and blue convolvulus flowers; cup with gilt bands to the foot rim and lip, and gilt edges to the handle; saucer with a circular gilt band in the centre and a gilt band to the lip.