SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • A little health... (Tyne)
    • 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... (Tyne)
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 The Great Eastern Steam-Ship – Sunderland


The SS Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the largest ship ever built at that time.  She was launched in London in 1858, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refuelling.
Huge thanks to Gilda Elizabeth for getting in touch with this chromolithograph of "The Great Eastern Afloat", 1857, from a drawing by Edwin Weedon.  Gilda did a bit of digging and discovered that her print appeared as a supplement to The Illustrated London News, Sep 17, 1859.  The image as shown below is trimmed, the original having the title: 'AFTER EDWIN WHEEDON.  THE GREAT EASTERN.–Afloat.  LENGTH,– 695 Feet.  BREADTH,– 118 Feet. TONNAGE,– 22500 Tons.' 
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Photo Gilda Elizabeth

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

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This is the largest transfer found on North East pottery that I have recorded, and measures 9.5 inches across.  Gilda points out that the engraver has added a couple of hundred feet to the ship's length, the transfer reading '891 Feet' (as opposed to the 695 Feet on the print above).

The transfer appears on bowls 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 borne out by the fact that the bowls marked Scott (see next section below) have zig-zag lustre decoration and enamelling typical of Moore's.  The wash basin below has a Moore & Co impressed mark.  It has a second, foreshortened, view of the ship that appears on plaques (see below).
A pedestal bowl, from ​the​ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection, with a Moore & Co impress without a number beneath it.  This bowl has the large Great Eastern transfer in the centre and other ship transfers, accompanied by the Crimea transfer and the New Bridge.
The blue enamel and smiling frog on the mug below are again typical features of Moore's Pottery.

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Below, three large punch bowls with the SCOTT impress.  Note that the transfers of Robert Burns and the Riflemen are unique to Moore's Pottery.  Also, note the zig-zag lustre decoration in the shape of a letter 'M'.  There's no doubt in my mind that these were 'blanks' supplied by Scott's and decorated by Moore's.

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

This smaller, foreshortened view was widely used on plaques.  The plaques below are unmarked, but plaques with the distinctive lustre decoration of the first below are found with the Moore & Co impress.  See the Duke of Wellington/La Bretagne page for more information about the transfers on this copper plate.
A bowl with multiple 'Moore ships' and an impressed mark over the number 8.
A bowl with 'Moore ships' marked Scott.  This item is more profusely decorated, like some of the plaques above.  However, note that despite the SCOTT impress, the bowl has zig-zag lustre decoration, like the letter 'M' used by Moore's.
The blue enamel decoration and slightly anaemic smiling frog are very similar to the mug above with the larger transfer.
Two later plaques with orange lustre, used from about the mid 1860s.  The left plaque is of a form used by Moore's and the right plaque, a form peculiar to Scott's.  

 The Great Eastern Leviathan – Tyneside


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Photo National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Attributed to John Carr & Sons, North Shields, c1860


London impressed marks were used by several Tyneside potteries.  This anchor impress, with a number over the top, is found on wares reliably attributed to Carr.  

On this bowl, also with a LONDON impress, the transfer is paired with more typical Carr transfers of Sunderland Bridge and Remembrance.
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  • Home
  • Armorials
    • Crimea
    • Farmers' Arms
    • Foresters
    • Gardeners' Arms
    • God Speed the Plough
    • Mariners' Arms
    • Mariners' Compass (flags)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 1)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 2)
    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
    • Masonry 1
    • Masonry 2
    • Masons' Arms
    • Masons' Arms (Tyne)
    • Odd Fellows
  • Maritime
    • Flag That's Braved 1000 Years
    • Jack on a Cruise
    • Jack's Safe Return - The Token
    • 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 - Maling type
    • Sailor's Return (Now Safe Returned From Dangers Past)
    • 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
    • Life Boat (Tyne)
    • Majestically slow before the breeze... (Success to the Coal Trade)
    • Marco Polo
    • May Peace and Plenty...
    • May Peace Once More...
    • 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)
  • Verses
    • A little health... (Tyne)
    • 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... (Tyne)
  • Inscriptions
    • C,C & Co-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Carr & Patton-Attributed Inscriptions
    • John Carr & Sons Inscriptions
    • John Patton Inscriptions
    • Robert Maling-Attributed Inscriptions
    • C T Maling-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Newcastle Pottery Inscriptions
    • Joseph Sewell-attributed inscriptions
    • Thomas Fell-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Sheriff Hill-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Early North Hylton or Sunderland Inscriptions
    • North Hylton inscriptions
    • Dawson Inscriptions pre-1830
    • Dawson Inscriptions post-1830
    • Phillips Inscriptions
    • Dixon Austin Dated Inscriptions
    • Dixon Austin Pictorial Inscriptions
    • Dixon, Phillips & Co Inscriptions
    • Moore Inscriptions
    • Scott Inscriptions
  • Bridge over river Wear
  • High Level Bridge Newcastle
  • Commemoratives
  • Months
  • Dawson Bachelor / Supper Sets
  • Flowers
  • Frogs
  • Fordy & Patterson Puzzle Jugs
  • Warburton Transfers
  • The Blue Flower Pottery