SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • A little health...
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    • 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)
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Jack on a Cruise


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The transfers on this page are after an engraving by Robert Sayer in 1782.  The subject was taken up by the Staffordshire potters as early as 1785 (see here for a fabulous Ralph Wood plaque on my friend Myrna's website). 

​Account books show that an engraver called Thomas Bewick was commissioned by Christopher and John Maling of the Hylton Pottery to make a plate titled 'Jack on a Cruise' on 14 April 1788 for £1  1s  0d (see Beverley Ruffell, The Malings and North Hylton Pottery).  However, the subject continued to remain popular until the 1830s, and appears on pink-lustre items attributable to Scott's Southwick Pottery.

Most of the items are unmarked, so we may never know which is Thomas Bewick's version.  Some, however, do have engravers' signatures, and in at least one case, a factory mark – for Moore and Austin's Southwick Union Pottery.


​To the right, a canary yellow jug and a creamware mug with the Neo Classical building and pedestal seen in the original print.  These items are likely from the last quarter of the 18th century, and may have originated in Staffordshire.

Jack on a Cruise – landscape with inn


Unidentified pottery

In many of the North East versions of the transfer, the Neo Classical backdrop is replaced by a run-down and rather disreputable looking inn with vegetation sprouting from the roof.  Perhaps a landscape that sailors could more readily identify with.  The woman, presumably of easy virtue, is pointing Jack to the Inn.
On this version there are more birds on the outer left side of the transfer.  There is a branch on the left of the tree that almost touches the woman's back.  The word 'there' is spelt 'thire' and the end of the caption reads 'Mainsail' rather than 'Maintopsail'.

Unidentified pottery

The subject is similar to the later (1830s) Robert Maling-attributed jug below, titled 'Any port in a storm, my old boy'.
The mug below has the same transfer as the one above, but also a rather coy looking frog, which might help us one day to identify the pottery.  Note that the sail on the ship seems less heavily shaded than those above and below.
A monochrome mug with the transfer.  The mug has a broader foot than those above.

Unidentified pottery

These two mugs appear to come from the same transfer plate.  They are similar to the version above but the flags on the top of the masts on the ship aren't square.

Unidentified pottery

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​The shading of the sail of the ship is different to the two versions above. The stripes on Jack's trousers are thicker.  The ship and Ark transfers are similar to those known to have been used by John Phillips.

This version appears to be a simplified copy of the transfer above.  

Attributed to the Bridge End Pottery, Sunderland

It is hard to see the full transfer in these photos, but the chimney suggests it is the inn rather than the church in this version.  Bell (Tyneside Potter) decodes the signature as 'Barker H, North Shore' (in Newcastle) which likely refers to the location of the engraver rather than the potter. The Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums catalogue attributes the item to the 'Bridge End Pottery (probably)'.

Attributed to North Shields

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Sadly, I don't have a better photo of this jug, but the lustre decoration and enamelling suggest it was made at the Low Lights Pottery in North Shields, likely by the Cornfoot, Carr and Co partnership of the mid 1830s.


Jack on a Cruise – landscape with church on left


J Phillips, Sunderland Pottery

In this version of the transfer, the inn is replaced by the church, adding a moral element to Jack's seduction and the likely consequences.
The same transfer on a creamware tankard.
The second tankard below, with coloured over-enamels, is from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

Southwick Union Pottery

The Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums catalogue gives a date of 1810 for this item.  Baker says that sometime after 1805 Samuel Moore and Peter Austin took over the pottery, so the mug likely falls within that period.

Anthony Scott & Co, Southwick Pottery

This transfer appears to be from the same copper plate as the later items below with decoration typical of Scott's Pottery, and is attributed to the Southwick Pottery on that basis.

Attributed to Scott & Sons, Southwick Pottery

This version of the transfer is attributed to the Scott and Sons partnership at Southwick, which Baker says ran from 1829 to 1841.  The last two images below are of a jug with a distinctive flower motif around the collar.  These collars appear on jugs with transfers inscribed 'Scott Southwick'.

Jack on a Cruise – landscape with church on right


Unidentified pottery

In this version, the image is reversed with Jack on the left and the church on the right.  There's also a windmill in the background.  The right jug, from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, has a portrait of Nelson on the reverse.

Unidentified Tyne (?) Pottery

A different rendering of the subject with the church on the right.   Jack is leading the girl to the church with a club tucked under his arm.  The verse reads:

Through Foreign climes I'll cease to Rove
And all my treasures find in thee
Then let us to that sweet above
​Where Pol and Jack made one shall be

Attributed to Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery

This is similar to the transfer above, although in this version, both Jack and his sweetheart have more of an air of innocence.  The decoration is typical of Robert Maling in the early 1830s.
The red band on the jug below suggests a later date, c1840.

Jack on a Cruise – landscape with inn and castle


Attributed to Phillips & Co, Sunderland – 1807–1812 or
Dixon, Austin, Phillips and Co –1813–1818

This transfer, with an inn on the left again, rather than a church, and a castle in the background, is signed by the engraver 'Downing Sculp'.  Downing's signature appears on later jugs by Dixon, Austin & Co.  This jug, of an early ovoid form, is attributed to the Sunderland Pottery on that basis.

Attributed to Scott & Sons, Southwick Pottery

This transfer is attributed to Scott on the basis of the similarity of decoration to the Scott-attributed mug above above.  The transfer is signed by the engraver 'T Atkinson Sculp'.

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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...
  • 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
    • Thomas Fell-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Joseph Sewell-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
  • Garrison Pottery puzzle jugs
  • Stockton Money Boxes
  • Stockton Pottery - Thomas Ainsworth
  • The Blue Flower Pottery
  • Warburton Transfers
  • Continental export wares