East View B8 (Moore)

East view of the Cast Iron Bridge... (oval) – bridge 8

This view is said to show the Lord Duncan, the largest ship built in Sunderland at that time, passing under the bridge. The ship was launched in 1798, just a couple of years after the bridge opened. But any real acquaintance with the bridge would have been short lived, as she was blown up in 1807 by an explosion in San Domingo. However, images of the ship passing under the bridge continued to be used by Dawson, North Shields and Moore & Co into the 1840s and 50s.

Moore & Co's Wear Pottery, Southwick – plate 1

Baker's bridge 8, with a printed mark at the base of the transfer 'Moore & Co Southwick'. Moore produced at least 2 versions of this transfer. The lower clouds in this version (the one shown in Baker) are less curvy. The plate below has the early 'MOORE & CO' horseshoe impress, suggesting the transfer was in use from the 1830s.

Below two mugs with the transfer. They both have distinctive enamel decoration used by Moore's during the late 1830s and 1840s. The first is from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.

Below two smaller mugs with red and green enamel decoration.

A red enamelled mug from the 1840s.

A small jug with blue and red enamel decoration, and printed flowers around the collar.

Moore & Co's Wear Pottery, Southwick – plate 2

In this version, the lower line of clouds over the bridge are picked out in a curvy profile. This transfer plate appears to have been in use into the 1850s.

The bowl below, from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection, has rare transfers: top left below, Ruins of Palmyra; top right, Friendly Society of Cordwainers. There is also an 'West View' of the bridge (bridge 38),

Below, a bowl with similar lustre decoration and enamels and the 'MOORE & CO' impress over the number '12'.

A rare, maybe even unique, jug of unusual shape, with a mask at the foot of a moulded handle, and an inscription 'A present for my Mother'. This is the only recorded jug of this form in pink lustre, and the only known example with a transfer on the base.