Dawson inscriptions post-1830
The first jug below, dated 1834, has transfers that are firmly attributed to Dawson. The second and third are from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection. The second, dated 1835, has a bridge transfer with a printed Dawson mark. The first two jugs have distinctive lustre decoration around the collar. The first and third have a view of the River Thames. All three have distinctive flower decoration.
Below, another Bonaparte mug dated 1835, paired with a verse marked I Dawson & Co Low Ford.
A large and profusely decorated jug from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich London collection, with a monogram under the spout. The fine cursive script is more similar to the items below.
The decoration of the collar and spout on the jug below are similar to the first and last jugs above, so I think it likely this jug was also made in the 1830s. Norman Lowe has identified that William Heeds married Ann Sprue on 9 September 1804 at Camberwell, so it appears to have been commissioned as a 30th anniversary present.
See the Robert & M Cloughton jug below, for an example with identical script dated 1835. The bridge transfer on the Cloughton jug has a printed Dawson mark.
An impressed Dawson plate, again with hand-painted enamel flower decoration and similar script.
Another, also with an impressed number beside the Dawson mark.
A jug of similar shape to the 1835 jug above, again with the 'Dawson' signed bridge transfer.
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The auction catalogue states: 'In the "Durham Mining Museum Master Index," Joseph Eggleston (1825-81) is listed as "Coal Miner".' Again, the bridge transfer has the printed Dawson mark.
A Dawson 'Gaudy Welsh' coffee pot and mug presumably contemporaneously inscribed to commemorate the wedding of Ralph and Alice Dawson in 1839, although the mug is undated. The coffee pot has a 'God Speed the Plough' transfer marked 'I Dawson & Co' and 'Low Ford'. The mug, although unmarked, has transfers from a Dawson pattern series titled 'Elysian Groups'.
The mug is very similar to the one above. It has railway and Polka transfers and, although inscribed 'BORN 1820', was more likely made between 1840–1850, perhaps in 1841 as a coming of age present. Polka mania started c1840. Beneath the mug, a daisy plate with the Polka transfer and a Dawson impressed mark.
The enameller who decorated this jug (from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection) would produce similar inscriptions for Moore's Wear Pottery in the 1860s.
A shaving mug with a pink-lustre inscription dated 1843.
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A distinctively shaped mug with an inscription for 1845 that appears to match the bachelor set below.
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The mugs above and below with moulded handles are both from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.
Below, a finely potted shaving mug with a removable internal compartment.
A Gaudy Welsh example. Note that the squared off ampersand matches that on the 'Roe' mug and 'Boggis' jug above.
This plate has very similar script to the item above. I'm grateful to Robert Hawker for identifying a William Castle Fordy born in Warkworth in Northumberland in 1862. According to Baker, Dawson's Low Ford Pottery likely stopped manufacturing pottery sometime between 1864–1868.