Description:
English Castleford-type assembled white felspathic stoneware teaset with a teapot with cover, sugar bowl with cover, and cream jug with molded and applied relief decoration and green trim; the cream jug does not match the teapot and sugar bowl. 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 rectangular, bulbous-bodied teapot and sugar bowl have domed covers with a pineapple-type finial highlighted in green over vertical reeding with green dashes; a band of lotus flowers around the sloped shoulder; sprig molded scattered flowers over vertical acanthus leaves alternating with reeding around the lower body and highlighted with a wavy green band around the body and green dashes and half-moon shapes; and a green band around the flat base. The teapot has a shaped spout with acanthus leaves around the base and the spout outlined in green; and a triple-scrolled handle with acanthus leaves and two furls, outlined in green. The sugar bowl has a simulated handles on each end outlined in green. The cream jug has a shaped rim and everted lip outlined in green over a band of flowers around the sloped shoulder; vertical reading around the body; green band over the short flared foot with the flat base outlined in green; and the scroll handle edged in green.
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