Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware oval sugar bowl or sucrier 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), Wedgwood, and the 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 has a fleur-de-lis finial surrounded by acanthus leaves; the bowl is divided into 4 panels with scenes of nude children playing under a tree and four children eating and playing under a tree on the reverse; and the simulated bail handles have grotesque faces in high relief. This sugar bowl is stylistically similar and same size as sugar bowl (HD 1383.4), but has a different finial, relief panel designs, and simulated handles.
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