Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware rectangular cream jug with molded and applied relief decoration and blue trim. 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 baluster-shaped jug has a shaped rim and everted lip outlined in blue; over the sloped shoulder; over a blue band and row of vertical reading around the body; over a band of sprig molded foliate decoration over a scalloped blue band over a row of alternating vertical acanthus leaves and four reeds with blue-tear-shaped and arch highlights, and a blue-outlined flat base. The C-shaped handle is reeded with a rope pattern and edged in blue; and extends from the top rim to the just above the base.
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