Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware teapot with a sliding cover, molded and applied relief decoration, blue trim, and the base impressed with "55"; the interior is not glazed. 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 floral finial (associated with Sowter and Company and excavated on the Chetham and Woolley site) over blue scalloped and oval bands; over a row of alternating vertical foliate sprays and incised demi-lune shapes; and a section of the gallery with alternating blue-outlined shaped arches, each with a small molded piece over a half flower head, and small vertical acanthus leaves, which completes the gallery oval on the body when the cover slides into position. Under the gallery, there is a band of three-part leaves extending into the sloped shoulder; over a shaped blue band following the shape of the fluted body, over an elaborate band of applied sprig molding with alternating flowers and swags; over a blue band and a row alternating vertical foliate sprays and incised demi-lune shapes around the blue-outlined flat base. The scrolled, blue-outlined handle has two furls; the straight, fluted spout extends from the lower body and has a blue band around the rim. Similar but not identical decoration appears on a marked D D & Co./ CASTLEFORD/POTTERY" sugar bowl in the Wakefield Council Cass.
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