Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware, oval cream jug shaped with molded and applied relief decoration and blue trim, and impressed on the base "24". The Castleford Pottery was run by David Dunderdale & Co., operating from 1790 to 1821 in Castleford, about 15 miles from Leeds in Yorkshire; the pottery produced a range of wares in creamware, black basalt, and white feldspathic stoneware. Although many factories, such as the Sowter and Company pottery (1800-late 1820s) of Mexborough, Yorkshire, and the Chetham and Woolley site (c.1795-c.1820) and Davenport Pottery (1794-1887) in Staffordshire, made similar feldspathic stoneware wares, the term 'Castleford' is now used generically to described a wide range of feldspathic stoneware, silver-shaped tea wares, jugs, and similar objects that are slip-cast with relief-molded decoration. The straight-sided jug has a shaped rim and everted lip outlined in blue; over a plain curved neck and sloped shoulder; over a blue band on each side of a horizontal band of sprig molded bell flowers; over a plain middle band over a blue band and a row of shallow reeding around the blue-outlined flat base. The blue-outlined scrolled handle, which is similar to handles found on Castleford Pottery mugs and jugs in feldspathic stoneware and blackware, is attached to the rim with an acanthus leaf and furls and attached to the body below the shoulder.
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