A View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Thames
Attributed to Scott's Southwick Pottery
Parliament passed the Bill for the Southwark Bridge to be built in 1811, but the bridge wasn't opened until 1819. The earlier transfers have the words 'to be erected', so were likely made sometime between those dates. It is signed 'E Barker' for Edward Barker, an engraver who received payments from Scott's Southwick Pottery between 1796 and 1800. For 40 years Edward Barker was foreman at Scott's Pottery, dying in first quarter 1841.
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At some time the transfer plate was embellished with garlands of leaves under the title. The left detail is from the mug above, and the right from the second jug below. Note there is a small nick to the upper left of the 'C' in 'Cast Iron Bridge' that appears on both imprints of the transfer plate.
Attributed to Scott's Southwick Pottery
The jug above is from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection. The jug is listed in the Museum catalogue as Dawson, but doesn't have a Dawson printed mark.
Attributed to Dawson & Co, Low Ford Pottery
This underglaze blue-printed transfer on the mug below appears to be from the same transfer plate as the mug above, but has an 'I Dawson & Co' signature, not evident in the photos of other items in this section. It could either be a later addition, or perhaps trimmed off.
In the absence of a dated inscription, it is hard to be sure when this jug was made, but its flower decoration is similar to that found on pink lustre jugs from the 1830s.
Dawson's continued to produce items with this transfer into the 1830s. The first example below has an inscription dated 1834. The second example below is from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London collection.
The smaller jug below is from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.
