SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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Sailor's Farewell – Tyneside


Thomas Fell, St Peter's Pottery

A very fine imprint of the transfer, perhaps from the 1830s.
Both the jug above and below have typical Fell decoration,  It is hard to be 100% sure that the transfers come from the same copper plate.
This more typically sooty imprint of the transfer is hard to read.  However, note the two dots (nicks in the transfer plate) that appear above the second letter 't' in the details below. The left detail is from the jug above, and the right detail from the frog mug below.
There is a lustre sun painted to the top right of the Sailor's Farewell transfer on the first jug.  This decorative feature appears to be unique to Thomas Fell.

Unidentified pottery, perhaps Carr and Patton, Low Lights, North Shields

The extensive lustre decoration suggests this high-waisted jug was made on Tyneside rather than Wearside. The 'Sailors' Farewell' transfer is closest to North Shields plate 2 below.

Attributed to Carr & Patton, Low Lights Pottery, 1838–1846 – North Shields plate 1

This version on the transfer is found on items with distinctive, red, hand-painted script, found on Carr's jugs in the 1840s.
  • Cottage in background has two windows on the left, and two-up, one-down on front. The hill behind is pointed. The footpath makes a sweeping broad curve.
  • There is a possessive apostrophe after the word 'sailors' in the title.

John Carr & Sons, Low Lights Pottery – North Shields plate 2

This bowl, likely from the 1840s, could easily be mistaken with wares from Dixon's Sunderland pottery.  However, the other transfers all appear on Carr-attributed items.
  • Cottage in background has two windows on the left, and one-up, one-down on front. The hill behind is pointed. The footpath makes a sweeping broad curve.
  • There is a possessive apostrophe after the word 'sailors' in the title.

This jug appears to have a transfer from the same plate, albeit with embellishments to the foliage suggesting it was re-engraved over time to restore clarity.
Although this jug has an inscription with a birth date of 1824, Sophie Mahy is the person's married name.  The jug was likely made c1850.  Beneath it, another smaller jug with a similar imprint.  The lustre decoration around the collar is a feature associated with North Shields.

This bowl appears to be a later imprint from the same transfer plate.  The bowl has an impressed London mark with fouled anchor, known to have been used by Tyneside potteries when selling items via a particular London distributor, c1860.
The decoration on the bowl isn't typically Carr, but the Gardener's Arms and verse transfers on the bowl appear on more typically decorated Carr items.


Thanks to MW for getting in touch.  She's been working on a dig in Footdee, an old fishing village at the harbour entrance to Aberdeen.  This was one of a number of pottery fragments found on waste ground near an old hall.  Below are details from the inscribed jug above (left) and London bowl (centre).  Looking at the different direction of the shading on the rocks, it appears that the transfer plate was re-engraved between the first and second imprint. MW's sherd looks to be from an item contemporary with the bowl.  See the Glide on my bark... and West View B26, B38 pages for two other sherds that MW unearthed.

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

Yet another variation of the transfer, found on a large washbowl with the Carr stag's head impress. ​ Ian Sharp writes that he John Carr and Sons impressed mark with stags head was used 1861–1896.

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

The enamel decoration (clobbering) is very similar to the wash ewer below.  However, the transfer is different, and rather crudely executed.

John Carr & Sons, Low Lights Pottery – North Shields plate 5

This transfer appears on a later 'Carr' wash ewer, c1870.
  • Cottage in background has two windows on the left, and a door on front. The hill behind is pointed.
  • There is a possessive apostrophe after the word 'sailors' in the title.

John Carr & Sons, Low Lights Pottery – North Shields plate 6

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This transfer is very similar to the Galloway and Atkinson version below.  It is possible that the transfer plate was acquired by Carr after 1864.  It looks to have been re-engraved. These items are attributed to Carr on the basis of the wavy lustre decoration and distinctive enamel decoration (clobbering).  See the Sunderland Sailor's Farewell page for later similar items by Ball's Deptford Pottery.

Galloway & Atkinson, Albion Pottery

Galloway & Atkinson had a short-lived partnership at the Albion Pottery, c1864.  It is rare to find a marked bowl.  It has a number 12 impressed above the initials G&A.
The other transfers on the bowl are all variations of common transfers found on items from other potteries.

Attributed to Carr & Patton, Low Lights Pottery, 1838–1846

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The transfer appears on jugs with green-flecked decoration from the 1830s.  Although I have attributed the larger portion of jugs decorated like this to Robert Maling, these transfers belong to a unique sub group.  Note that, unlike the Maling examples, the green enamel is applied neatly in teardrop shapes.  It is possible that the jugs below were made in North Shields, and that Carr and Patton were emulating their neighbour's green fleck decoration.  See a jug with similar decoration attributed to Carr & Patton here and another with similar decoration here.

Redhead, Wilson & Co, Forth Banks, Newcastle Pottery – 1833–1838

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Three typically heavily lustred jugs with a yellow band from the Newcastle Pottery.
Below (respectively), the decoration on the handles of the three jugs above.
Three larger jugs with the transfer.  The first paired with an Foresters' Arms transfer, and the second with British Slavery, after a caricature by James Gillray.  The second has a printed mark for Newcastle Pottery.  The third with a hand-painted floral collar.
A punchbowl with similar decoration.
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Image courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery

Sailor's Farewell , transfers without the verse 


 Carr and Patton, North Shields, 1838–1846 

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Three heavily lustred jugs with this version of the transfer that has the title, but no verse. The termination of the lustre decoration on the handle in 4 horizontal strokes is typical of North Shields.
The transfer also appears on jugs with distinctive red enamels.  The jugs have similar lustre decoration to the handle as the large jug above associated with North Shields.
On the last jug above and the small jug below, the transfer is paired with the 'Sailors' Farewell' verse.
Below, two small jugs with unusual green and red enamel decoration, with signature North Shields decoration to the handle..
Finally, the transfer as it appears on frog mugs.

Attributed to ​Carr & Patton, North Shields 1838–1846 

A heavily-lustred jug, c1840, again with a transfer without the verse.
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    • Sailor's Farewell (The order giv'n)
    • Sailor's Fairwell - Maling type
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    • Shields the Mouth of River Tyne
    • Sweet Little Cherub (Poor Jack)
    • Tynemouth Haven
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    • Agamemnon in a storm
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    • 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
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