Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware oval sugar bowl or sucrier (part of a set with cream jug HD 1668.3) with a removable cover, and 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 lid has a fleur-de-lis finial surrounded by a band of inverted leaves. The bowl has a straight rim with a gallery of circles with a flower in each. The sloped shoulder is decorated with a band of inverted leaves. The body is divided into 4 panels by vertical columns with plant-like capitals: One panel has a young boy holding on to a lion; reverse scene has 2 young boys, one lighting torch for the other. Simulated circular bail handles in relief on 2 side panels. Flared foot supports straight-sided body.
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