Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware rectangular, baluster-shaped teapot with a removable cover, and molded and relief applied 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 domed cover has a flattended flower finial over vertical reeding, highlighted with blue tear-shapes. There is a blue band around the neck rim over a band of sprig molded stylized shapes around the sloped shoulder; over a blue band and row of vertical reading around the staight neck; over two rows of sprig molded foliate decoration separated by 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 blue-outlined, D-shaped handle has reeding, two furls and scrolled terminal; and is attached to the bottom edge of the shoulder to the mid-point of the body. The curved spout, which extends from the mid-point of the body, has a blue-outlined rim, grooves along the body, and molded acanthus leaves around the base. Gift of J. B. Morris, Jr., #874.
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