Casgliadau Arlein

Pot-lid, earthenware, circular shape with cylindrical flange and convex top, the flange and underside of the lid partially obscurerd by the frame; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'Ann Hathaway's Cottage' (although this exact title is not recorded on the lid), showing a rural scene with a male figure leading a pony and driving sheep in the foreground, and a thatched cottage in the background, around the bottom of the scene is the inscription "THE RESIDENCE OF ANN HATHAWAY, SHAKSPEARES WIFE, SHOTTERY, NR STRATFORD ON AVON", any border which may enclose the print is obscured by the frame. The glaze crazed. The pot-lid mounted for display in a close-fitting circular wooden frame painted black.