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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Mariners' Arms  – Sunderland


Garrison Pottery 1

 Large Dixon jug with a hand-painted inscription dated 1830. Note the zig-zag of foliage to the right of the shield (bottom centre detail).  See the Dawson section below for a similar rendering of the subject.
Below is the same transfer on a creamware frog mug likely earlier in date.  The transfer has been decorated with over-enamels.
The mug has a typical Dixon frog.  The second larger mug, from ​the ​ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection, has a flower sprig decoration, typical of Sunderland Pottery items from the 1820s.

Garrison Pottery 2

This bowl has the Dixon Phillips with anchor impress used before 1850.
Picture
  • Left figure has no buttons on coat on left side (top right detail)
  • Left hat brim not shaded, right hat brim shaded
  • Apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
  • Pile of cannonballs in front of cannon 

Garrison Pottery 3

This transfer has that same attributes as the one above, and is an almost identical copy.  The foliage in the foreground, however, differs.  Although unmarked, the lustre decoration and transfers on this jug are typical of the Garrison Pottery c1850.
  • Left figure has no buttons on coat on left side (top right detail)
  • Left hat brim not shaded, right hat brim shaded
  • Apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
  • Pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)
The second jug above has a painted inscription for 1848.
This version of the transfer was also used on frog mugs, with a large-sized frog.  On the jug above, the transfer is overpainted with coloured enamels.  These items are likely from the 1840s.

Garrison Pottery 4

​The transfer as it appears on a 'Dixon Co'-impressed washbowl with ewer decorated with Crimean transfers c1855.
  • Left figure has two buttons on coat below left arm and none above (top right detail)
  • Brims to hats are shaded
  • Apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
  • Pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)
The slop bowl below was also likely made in the 1850s.  Note the silhouette of the foliage to the right of the shield.
The bowl below has a weaker impress from the 1860s and the transfer is decorated with coloured enamels.
Below the other sides of the bowl, with another and a jug, all from the 1860s.

Low Ford Pottery, J Dawson & Co

This large mug is has a very similar version of the transfer to the Garrison 1 items above.  However, note the buttons on the man's coat in the lower left detail on the left.  Also, there is no apostrophe in the word 'MARINERS'.
The mug has a rare ship transfer.  See the The Tear page for another similar mug with this ship transfer and a frog inside it.  It appears to have the same version of the transfer as the Dawson marked jug below.

A small and rare jug with a printed mark 'J Dawson & Co Low Ford'.

Moore & Co


Newbottle Pottery

  • Left figure has two buttons on coat below left arm and two buttons above (top right detail)
  • Brims to hats aren't shaded
  • No apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
  • Pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)
Below, a rare tobacco jar with the transfer, and almost identical enamelling to the last jug above.
The lid and damper are decorated with flower transfers.

Seaham Pottery

  • Left figure has two buttons on coat below left arm and no buttons above (top right detail)
  • Brims to hats aren't shaded
  • No apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
  • No pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)
The black decoration on the handle of the first frog mug is a feature associated with Seaham. The mug beneath it was likely a factory second and was never decorated.  It has two scratches to the right of the anchor that appear on later imprints from the plate (see right detail). The large Seaham jug in the Sunderland Museum, dated 1847, has these scratches (see above), but the first frog mug below does not, so was likely made earlier.
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Mariners' Arms  – Tyneside


Cornfoot, Carr and Co (1832–1838) or
​Carr and Patton, North Shields (1838–1846)– plate 1

In the absence of a dated inscription it is harder to attribute North Shields items.  Both the partnerships above signed their items with distinctive horizontal lustre marks on the handle (see next section below).  This is a smaller version of the transfer, for use on smaller jugs.  More rarely, it appears on jugs with a blue enamel foot.

Carr and Patton, North Shields – plate 2

This transfer was again likely used by both Cornfoot, Carr and Co (1832–1838) and Carr and Patton (1838–1846) at North Shields.  It is very similar to the 1830s' Garrison Pottery transfer at the top of this page.
The other transfers on the jug are shown below.  Also, the signature North Shields lustre marks on the handle.  These larger, later jugs tend to be heavily potted.

Below are ​two 'documentary' jugs with the same version of the transfer.  The date, 1840, puts them firmly within the Carr and Patton period. 

John Carr and Sons, Low Lights Pottery, North Shields – plate 1

In the late 1840s through the 1850s, Carr produced lustre items which are similar to those made by Dixon.  These bowls were made c1850.
The bowl below has darker lustre and could easily be mistaken for wares made by Dixon, Phillips & Co's Garrison Pottery in Sunderland.

John Carr and Sons, North Shields – plate 2 (Seaham transfer)

This transfer comes from the same copper plate as the Seaham-attributed items above and has the same nicks and scratches.  However, the bowl below was likely made after the pottery's closure.  We know that transfer plates used at Seaham Pottery turn up at North Shields, c1850.  John Hedley Walker, the owner of the Seaham Pottery, moved his operations to Carr's Hill Pottery near Gateshead in 1849.   'Carr's Hill' refers to a village, and not to the North Shields potter.  However, this does provide a plausible explanation for why the copper plates might have migrated northwards to Tyneside.

The London impressed mark was used by several Tyneside potteries when making wares for a London retailer.  This particular impress is known to have been used by Carr, so the bowl is likely North Shields, c1860.  Note the similarity of lustre decoration around the transfer to the Carr-impressed (plate 3) bowl below.
The bowl below is unmarked, and has the Seaham Mariners' Arms transfer with the Carr version of B14, copied from Dixon.
The wash bowl below has similar decoration to the bowl above, and again has a London impressed mark.

John Carr and Sons, Low Lights Pottery, North Shields – plate 3

A relatively crude rendering of the subject found on a bowl with the Carr Stag's head impress, said by Ian Sharp to have been used from 1861–1896.  This bowl with wavy lustre decoration, typically found on Carr items from the 1860 and 70s.

John Carr and Sons, Low Lights Pottery, North Shields – plate 4

This transfer has a very distinctive thick anchor whose ends almost touch the shaft in the centre.
The photos below show the other transfers from this Carr wash ewer from c1870.
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    • 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
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  • Bridge over river Wear
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