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An East View of the New Bridge Sunderland – Bridge 18


Moore & Co's Wear Pottery and Scott's Southwick Pottery

The transfer appears on wares with both Scott and Moore impressed marks.  The most obvious explanation being, as Baker writes, that 'Scott's supplied earthenware to Moore's Wear Pottery [...] presumably plain for decoration' (Baker page 54).  This is evidenced by the fact that the enamel decoration is consistent on items from both potteries (see below).  This view appears on plates, bowls and jugs paired with the West View, bridge 19.
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A group of plaques below showing different combinations of enamel decoration, the second from​ the ​Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection. The last four, courtesy of Ian Holmes.  The first plaque is of form and decoration used by Moore's in the 1850s.  The last five are most likely 1860s. It is perhaps telling that this transfer does not appear on items with orange lustre used from about the mid 1860s onwards.  It is possible that the coper plate became damaged, and was replaced by bridge 17, which does not appear on pink lustre items from the 1860s.  However, the transfer plate apparently resurfaces years later at either Ball's Pottery or Carr's (see below).

A large punchbowl with the Trident Steamship – a transfer used exclusively by Moore & Co.  I would guess that this item has the Moore impress, but unfortunately I don't have a photo.
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Photo Peter Smith Antiques

A similarly decorated bowl with the Moore impress and an inscription for 1859, and another unmarked.  As discussed above, the East View is ​paired on both bowls with the West View, bridge 19.

A slop bowl with a  different version of the Crimea transfer, and typical zig-zag lustre decoration.

A pedestal bowl, from ​the​ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection, with the Moore & Co impress.  This bowl has the large Great Eastern transfer in the centre and other ship transfers, accompanied by the Crimea transfer and the New Bridge.

As discussed above, although this bowl is marked 'SCOTT' it was likely supplied 'blank' for decoration at Moore's.  Note the Moore signature zig-zag decoration to the exterior of the bowl.

Below, a frog mug with what appears to be a Scott frog, painted black as its Moore equivalent would have been. So, likely potted at Scott's, and decorated at Moore's.

Below, two jus with typical Moore zig-zag lustre decoration and heavily lustred collars.

A plate with near identical enamelling over the transfer to items above, but with a Scott impressed mark over a number 8.  See also a pair to this plate with the West View, bridge 19.

This jug is unusually well decorated and has an inscription with a birth date of 1830.  The jug was likely made in the 1860s (NB the New Bridge didn't open until 1859).

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One of a pair of inscribed jugs with the transfer.  This one has the Sailor's Farewell and the East View, which is the view a Sunderland sailor would have had looking back when leaving home.  The other has the Sailor's Return and the West View (bridge 19).

Attributed to Sheepfolds Warehouse

Below, the Bridge 18 transfer printed on a milk-glass rolling pin, and beneath it, in gold on a blue-glass example.  Norman Lowe has suggested that the copper plates with these transfers  moved to Sheepfolds Warehouse which, employing the principles of division of labour, decorated white earthenware items for both Moore's and Scott's.  Sheepfolds were known to have had a side line in decorating rolling pins.
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Photo British Bespoke Auctions
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Photo eBay

Attributed to either John Carr & Sons, North Shields, or Ball's Deptford Pottery

As discussed above, the transfer makes a reappearance on a plaque form used by John Carr & Sons.  However, it is possible that Ball's bought the plaque moulds when Carr's Pottery closed in 1893.
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    • Crimea
    • Farmers' Arms
    • Foresters
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    • God Speed the Plough
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  • Maritime
    • Flag That's Braved 1000 Years
    • Jack on a Cruise
    • Jack's Safe Return - The Token
    • O'er the Green Sea
    • Pirate
    • Sailor's Farewell (Far from home...)
    • Sailor's Farewell (Sweet, oh sweet...)
    • Sailor's Farewell, Tyne (Sweet, oh sweet...)
    • Sailor's Farewell (The order giv'n)
    • Sailor's Fairwell and Return - Maling type
    • Sailor's Return (Now Safe Returned From Dangers Past)
    • Sailor's Return - Seaham and Stockton type
    • Shields the Mouth of River Tyne
    • Sweet Little Cherub (Poor Jack)
    • Tynemouth Haven
  • Ships
    • Agamemnon in a storm
    • Ball Ships
    • Brig / Schooner
    • Columbus (Tyne)
    • Duke of Wellington / La Bretagne
    • Frigate in Full Sail
    • Gauntlet Clipper
    • Great Australia Clipper Ship
    • Great Eastern Steamship
    • Gudrun
    • Life Boat
    • Majestically slow before the breeze... (Success to the Coal Trade)
    • Marco Polo
    • May Peace and Plenty...
    • May Peace Once More...
    • Norah Creina Steam Yacht
    • Northumberland 74
    • Star of Tasmania
    • Success to the Coal Trade
    • Success to the shipping trade
    • Success to the Tars of Old England
    • Truelove from Hull / Unfortunate London
    • Untitled orange lustre ships
    • Untitled ship (Tyne)
    • Victory
  • Verses
    • A little health...
    • Distress me with those tears...
    • Foremast man...
    • Forget Me Not
    • Glide on my bark...
    • Life's like a ship...
    • Man Doom'd to Sail – The Tear
    • My bonny sailor's won my mind... (Tyne)
    • My heart is fix'd... (Tyne)
    • Now weigh the anchor...
    • Sailor's Tear
    • Success to all sailors... (Tyne)
    • Success to the Farmer
    • Success to the Tars of Old England (Here's to you Jack)
    • The sails unfurl, let the billows...
    • Thou noble bark...
    • Thus smiling at peril... (Tyne)
    • Time (Tyne)
    • When tempests mingle...
    • When this you see...
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