Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware oval sugar bowl or sucrier with a removable cover, molded and applied relief decoration and blue trim, and "8" and "9" stamped on the base. 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 has a floral finial over a blue scalloped and two blue oval bands, over a row of vertical flowers and an opening for a spoon; 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 linked ovals outlined in blue, each with a molded flower head; over the sloped shoulder with two molded bands; over four panels outlined in blue, two with applied sprig molding, divided by four acorn and oak leaf columns: one panel has a seated, gowned woman feeding a large eagle from a dish, and the reverse panel has a classically-dressed woman holding a branch. The lower section of the body has a row of acanthus leaves over the shaped flat, blue-outlined base. The two blue-outlined, acanthus leaf-shaped handles have a furl at the end, and are attached just below the shoulder on opposite sides.
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