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.
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, c1850, 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 in the 1850s.
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
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 4
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 5
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 from other potteries.
Attributed to Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, Newcastle, 1830s
Although variations of this transfer and verse are relatively common, it is rarer to find one on these green-flecked jugs attributed to Robert Maling. The bridge transfer is also a rare variation, so it seems likely the two images come from the same copper plate.
Redhead, Wilson & Co, Forth Banks, Newcastle Pottery – 1833–1838
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.
Sailor's Farewell , transfers without the verse
Carr and Patton, North Shields, 1838–1846
Two 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.
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.
