Casgliadau Arlein

A large jug of stone-paste, standing on a high, tapering foot rim, bulbous lower body, tapering towards a broad, raised rib at the shoulder, the neck, rising cylindrically, then flaring and ending in an everted, undulating lip rim, the pinched mouth forming one small lobe, with two larger to either side, the whole forming a trefoil-type effect; the handle plaited, of twisted loop form; the foot rim unglazed, the body with a bright thin turquoise glaze and painted under the glaze in black, dark blue and dark green, on the lower body with a broad band of chevrons, pendulate dots and arabesques, at the shoulder, with a band of Arabic script and on the neck with a simple band of waved upright lines, black banding to lip rim; the handle with horizontal black banding; the whole with a very thick, glassy appearence, much crazed, cracked and repaired with filled in patches of gilding and other patches of iridescent degraded glaze, especially to the handle.