Life Boat – Tyneside potteries
Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, 1820s
Wheat-ear decorated jug – group 1
Wheat-ear decorated jug– group 2
Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, late 1830s
Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, late 1830s / early 1840s
A small version of the transfer on a slightly later jug.
William and Grace Darling
Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, after 1838
Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, after 1838
Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, after 1838
A smaller version of the transfer for a cream jug.
Northumberland Life Boat
Attributed to Bird & Co, Northumberland Pottery, North Shields, 1823–1827
and Low Lights Pottery, North Shields
The left transfer, from the first jug below, appears to be an earlier imprint from Bird & Co's 'Northumberland Earthenware Manufactory'. Note that there is no flourish after the word 'Boat' in the title. During reengraving a printed mark was added below the transfer 'North Shields Pottery Low Lights', which appears on the later imprint (right transfer above) from the third jug below, likely made after the pottery changed hands in 1827. The second jug below has the flourish after the word 'Boat', but no signature, so either the signature was trimmed off, or the copper plate went through two rounds of reengraving.
Attributed to Cornfoot, Colville & Co, North Shields, 1828–1832, or Cornfoot, Carr and Co, North Shields, 1832–1838
This appears to be from the same copper plate as the items above, and again has the printed mark below the transfer 'North Shields Pottery Low Lights'.
The next items have an almost identical transfer, but with no printed mark. They do, however, have the flourish on the word 'Boat'.
Ball's Deptford Pottery – Sunderland
A different rendering of the subject at Ball's Deptford Pottery, some 50 years or so later. You can read more on Ian Holmes' site.
Both the lifeboat transfer and the portrait of Willie Wouldhave have printed marks beneath them saying 'COPYRIGHT' and 'BALLS BROS SUNDERLAND'.
