Sailor's Return – Sunderland
Moore & Co, Wear Pottery, Sunderland
This version of the transfer has also likely been recorded on bowls with the Scott impress. During the 1850s, Scott's supplied Moore's neighbouring pottery with 'blanks' for decoration. This has caused some confusion. Moore-decorated items, like the jug below, tend to have a purple lustre collar and zig-zag lustre decoration.
Scott of Southwick, Sunderland
The first jug and frog mug below have transferred flower decoration and a black frog typical of Scott's Pottery. The obliterated mark under the bridge transfer on the jug suggests a date after 1841, when the partnership changed to Scott Brothers & Co. The decoration of the second jug is typical of the 1850s. As with the bowl above (c1855), the pink lustre is applied in softer/curvier waves than on Moore items. Although, admittedly, the examples on this page are hard to distinguish on that basis!
An eel pot or butter dish with the transfer, paired with 'Crimea', c1855.
A distinctive plaque form used by Scott's, also c1855.
Ball's Deptford Pottery
The copper plate for this version of the transfer was donated by the Ball family to the collection of Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. At a later date, someone has added the fake printed inscription 'Dixon, Phillips & Co, Sunderland'. My guess is that this was done sometime after the Garrison Pottery closed in 1865 and with the intention to deceive.
The other transfers on the bowl include 'Jack Crawford, the Hero of Camperdown'. You can read more on Ian Holmes' website.
Photo Ian Holmes
Sailor's Return – Tyneside
Unidentified Tyne pottery
The decoration on this jug has decorative elements that are very similar to those used by Carr and Patton in North Shields c1840s. However, the short spout is perhaps more typical of the Newcastle Pottery.
C T Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, Newcastle
The Maling copper plate (below right) now resides in the collection of the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums). See here for an image of the other transfers on the copper plate.
The transfer appears on a wedding jug dated 1857.
Although the jug above has no maker's mark, the transfer also appears on the washbowl below with the CT Maling impress. The wash ewer beneath it is unmarked.
