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
Collingwood & Beall, North Shields Pottery, 1814?–1823
This jug has a printed mark for 'Collingwood & Beall, N Shields'. Usually when these marks appear, they are partially scratched out, and on later, 1830s', pink-lustre items from the C, C & Co partnerships at North Shields. This is the first contender I have seen to be a true c1820 item made by Collingwood & Beall.
Attributed to Bird & Co, Northumberland Pottery, North Shields, 1823–1827
and Low Lights Pottery, North Shields
This intricately decorated jug was likely made by Bird & Co's 'Northumberland Earthenware Manufactory'. The transfer comes from the same copper plate as the item above and the jug is decorated in similar red enamels.
The jug above doesn't have any printed marks. However, during a later round of re-engraving 'North Shields Pottery Low Lights' was added below the transfer (see right imprint below). It was likely added after the pottery changed hands in 1827.
The left transfer, from the first jug below, has no flourish after the word 'Boat' in the title, which appears to have been accidentally trimmed off on this imprint. The right transfer above is from the second jug below.
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.
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'.
