Description:
English Catleford-type white felspathic stoneware oval cream jug with a shaped rim and everted lip; a band of vertical acanthus leaves around the sloped shoulder; over four sprig-decorated neo-classical panels separated by columns of inverted bell flowers around the slightly shaped body - a cherub at the base of a tree, a cherub holding a bird, and a woman holding a goblet; over a band of vertical acanthus leaves on a stippled ground around the shaped flat base. The scrolled handle, which is similar to handles found on Castleford Pottery mugs and jugs in feldspathic stoneware and blackware, is attached to the rim with an acanthus leaf and furls and attached to the body below the shoulder. 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.
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