SUNDERLAND AND TYNE POTTERY TRANSFERS
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    • Success to all sailors... (Tyne)
    • The sails unfurl, let the billows...
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    • When tempests mingle...
    • When this you see... (Tyne)
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Life's like a ship...  – Sunderland


Scott Brothers & Co, Southwick, 1840–50s

Although unmarked, the frog and bridge transfer can be reliably linked to Scott's Pottery c1850.
Below a large bowl, again unmarked, attributed to Scott's.

Life's like a ship...  – Tyneside


Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, Newcastle

The Tyne versions have a ship above the verse transfer.
This bowl, although unmarked and undated, is finely potted and decorated, which suggests it was made in the 1840s.  The transfer has scratches (a diagonal mark to the right of 'every' and another inside the 'm' of 'must') that are found on the later frog mug below, reliably attributed to CT Maling.

C T Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, Newcastle

This frog mug has a lustre inscription, in a hand associated with Maling items, dated 1856.
Picture
First row below, a very similar slop bowl, likely from the 1850s.  The rings inside are reminiscent of the bowl above. Second row, a larger bowl with transfers of steam ships. Finally, an eel pot with an unusual swan transfer on the lid.
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  • 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
    • Masons' Arms
    • Masons' Arms (Tyne)
    • Odd Fellows
  • Bridge over river Wear
    • East view B32, B33 (Coal Trade)
    • Sunderland Bridge
    • Sunderland Bridge B5 (Seaham)
    • West View B13 (oval-Dixon)
    • West View B26, B38 (oval)
    • West View B39 (oval-Scott)
    • West view (oval-Tyne)
    • West View B9 (rectangular)
    • West View B14 (rectangular)
    • West View B24, B27 (rectangular)
    • West View B29 (rectangular)
    • West View B12 (rectangular-Tyne)
  • Maritime
    • Sailor's Farewell (Far from home...)
    • Sailor's Farewell (Sweet, oh sweet...)
    • Sailor's Farewell (The order giv'n)
    • Shields the Mouth of River Tyne
  • Ships
    • Agamemnon in a storm
    • Columbus (Tyne)
    • Gauntlet Clipper
    • Northumberland 74
    • Life Boat (Tyne)
    • 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...
    • 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)
    • The sails unfurl, let the billows...
    • Thou noble bark...
    • Thus smiling at peril... (Tyne)
    • Time (Tyne)
    • When tempests mingle...
    • When this you see... (Tyne)
  • Flowers
  • Frogs