Casgliadau Arlein

Tankard, pearl-glazed earthenware, drum-shaped, with recessed base, and wide strap handle having double grooves and foliate moulded thumbpiece and lower terminal. Painted with the half-length figure of a druid in profile to left with one arm raised on a dark brown ground within an oval gilt frame of intersecting ellipses each containing three dots. He is clad in a brown robe, wears a circlet of oak leaves, and has shoulder-length grey hair and a beard. On either side, large gilded sprays, one of oak leaves, barley, and acorns with a butterfly, and the other comprising a large tulip, leaves and a floret with a large peacock butterfly.