Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware oval sugar bowl or sucrier with molded and applied relief decoration, made for the American market with its eagle 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 domed, oval lid is topped with floral finial over a band of oak leaves on a stippled ground; this finial is associated with Sowter and Company, and has been excavated on the Chetham and Woolley site. The shaped body has a gallery with a scalloped top, under which scallop is a star in a circle; over the plain sloped shoulder; over a band of interlaced alternating ovals and flowers; over four panels separated by vertical bands of linked circles and flowers, with applied sprig molding on the side panels - one panel has a Liberty head wearing a Liberty or Phrygian cap, flanked by crossed laurel branches and stars, over a panel of stylized floral sprigs on a stippled ground, and the reverse has clouds and thirteen stars over an eagle with a banner in its peak with "E. PLURIBUS UNUM" and a sheaf of arrows in its right talon and olive branch in its left based on the American seal eagle issued in 1782, except that the arrows and olive branch are reversed, over the same floral panel; over a flat molded foot. There are two simulated bail handles just below the shoulder on opposite sides.
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