Description:
English Castleford-type white felspathic stoneware oval teapot with a hinged cover, molded and applied relief decoration, and blue trim. 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 cover, which is held to the neck with a steel pin with flower terminals, has a oval finial topped in blue with pointed ends and incised lines radiating out, over a blue oval band and row of alternating leaves and fern-like shapes. The shaped rim has a scalloped edge outlined in blue over a band of graduated acanthus leaves; over a band of flowers heads on the sloped shoulder; over four panels separated by classical-style columns, all outlined in blue, with sprig molded four-sided foliate sprays in the four corners of the two side panels; over a scalloped blue band and row of flowers around the lower third of the body over the blue-outlined shaped flat base. The blue-outlined D-shaped handle with two furls extends from the top of the shoulder; and curved spout has a band of alternating leaves and fern-like shapes around the base and a blue-edged rim.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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