Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware, curved and flattened baluster-shaped oval teapot with a removable cover, 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 small rectangular, domed lid has a rectangular finial with light incised lines radiating from the blue-tipped top; two blue bands around the stepped sides; over a blue band, a group of inverted pyramid incised lines on each side, and blue band around the edge. The curved, sloped shoulder has two blue bands and a sprig molded row of alternating scrolls and tassels and inverted tulip-shaped flower heads; over a plain incurved band, over a blue band and band of five molded bands following the shape of the body, over a blue band and row of vertical reeding; over a rectangular foot base outlined in blue around the edge. The underside of the curved handle has a row of shaped reeding, with the top of the reeding and spout outlined in blue; the blue-outlined D-shaped handle has a furl and three wide molded bands, one at the top and two above the base.
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