Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware oval, straight-sided cream jug with molded and applied relief decoration. 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 jug has a shaped rim over a plain curved shoulder; over four panels, two with sprig molded decoration, separated with columns topped with acanthus leaves: one side has four putti eating and playing under a tree, and the other has four putti playing under a tree; over a plain molded band and row of alternating arches with foliate sprays and acanthus leaves over a flat base. The reeded C-shaped handle, which is attached at the rim and lower body, has a furl on the lower section.
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