SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • May Peace Once More...
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    • 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)
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The Sailor's Tear – Sunderland


 Garrison Pottery

Two imprints from the same copper plate, the first with coloured enamels, and likely earlier, c1840s. The second is from a jug with the inscription 'Robert & Margaret Gove' and dated 1850, and the third from a jug with an inscription for 1855.  By that date, the transfer plate had been reengraved.  The ship acquires a flag on top and the shape of the water beneath it changes.
The transfer has a unique flaw – a long downstroke on the letter 'H' at the start of the poem's first line. The details from the items above, respectively, showing that the do come from the same copper plate.
The jug below has a transfer of Robert Peel, c1850.

Garrison Pottery later imprints

The mug above has the flaw on the letter 'H' still visible but the bowl does not.  Both C 1860 with similar enamel decoration.

Newbottle Pottery

This distinctive version of the transfer appears on wash ewers and bowls. This transfer plate appears to have been later sold to Moore's Pottery.  The second bowl has similarities of decoration with that pottery.
On later imprints there are some scratches, most notably through the word 'friends'.  This appears on all the items above except the plaque, which is likely earlier in date.​
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Scott and Sons, Southwick Pottery, 1829–1841.

Above, two tankards with the printed mark under the verse 'Scott & Sons Southwick'.  Below, a nice crisp image of the transfer on an eel pot, but trimmed to fit, so the maker's mark is missing.
Below a jug with the same transfer.
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The decoration around the collar of the jug and under the spout is typical of Scott's pottery and was used as late as 1860. This jug c1840.

Scott Brothers and Co, Southwick Pottery, 1841–1872

This is the same transfer as above, but with the mark obliterated.  It seems likely that the printed mark 'Scott & Sons' was erased when the partnership changed at the Southwick Pottery. 

Seaham Pottery

The transfer on this c1847 bowl is smudged, and difficult to read (see the relevant Mariner's Compass page for more details on this attribution).
The transfer with coloured over enamels on a large mug, again paired with the Mariner's Compass.

The Sailor's Tear – Tyneside


​ Carr and Patton, North Shields, 1838–1846

Two heavily lustred North Shields jugs with signature lustre decoration to the handle.  The red enamel decoration is also typical of North Shields c1840.

John Carr and Sons, North Shields – plate 1 (Seaham transfer)

This transfers on this bowl come from the same copper plate as the Seaham-attributed items above.  However, this bowl below was likely made after the pottery's closure, which appears to be c1852.  The London impressed mark was used by several Tyneside potteries when making wares for a London retailer.  This particular London impress is know to have been used by Carr around 1860.

The lustre decoration around the transfer is typical of North Shields.

Attributed to Carr and Patton, or
John Carr and Sons, North Shields – plate 2

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This highly lustred and finely potted bowl could easily be confused with wares from Dixon's Garrison Pottery.  However, the variations of the more common transfers  that it carries (Mariners' Arms, Mariners' Compass, etc) are all found on objects attributable to Carr.
The bowl below has sepia coloured transfers associated with Carr.  The verse 'On Time' and the bridge transfer in the centre are peculiar to Tyneside.

The verse transfer on these bowls comes from the same copper plate as the jugs below. Note the two small nicks above the smaller flower and the leaf to its left in these details (second bowl far left, jug near left). The jugs in the section below share scratches that don't appear on the bowls, suggesting they were made at a later date.

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Both these jugs and the smaller one below have a diagonal scratch to the left of the first 'T' in the title.  And a small diagonal mark, where the engraver slipped, under the 'H' that starts the first line.
The lustre decoration around the collar is particular to North Shields, c1850.

This pedestal bowl looks like a later imprint of the transfer plate above, although there is no remnant of any of the marks on the bowl and jugs above. The wavy lustre decoration is typical of Carr, c1870.  The impressed London mark with anchor was known to be used by Carr's pottery.

John Carr and Sons, North Shields – plate 3

A marked John Carr and Sons bowl from c1870s with orange lustre.

John Carr and Sons, North Shields – plate 4

This appears to be yet another North Shields version.  The red, green and yellow enamelling (clobbering) over the transfer is typical of late Carr wares.

John Carr and Sons, North Shields – plate 5

The details above from the two, very similar, large jugs below respectively.  These jugs are heavily potted and might be as late as 1880.

Newcastle Pottery

A completely different rendering of the verse from a jug from the Newcastle Pottery.  ​
The short spout and deep purple splash lustre are typical of the Newcastle Pottery.  This distinctive transfer of The Foresters Arms appears on Newcastle jugs with a yellow stripe.
A typical Newcastle frog mug from the 1830s with red enamel decoration.

Thomas Fell, St Peter's Pottery

A very similar transfer to that on the Newcastle jug above.  This jug is attributed to Fell on the basis of the distinctive lustre decoration, elements of which are found on plaques with the Fell impress. The over-glaze transfers of Fell items from this period have a sooty quality.
The other transfers on the jug shown below with a frog mug and another similar jug, all c1840s.
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    • Crimea
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    • Gardeners' Arms
    • God Speed the Plough
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    • Mariners' Compass (flags)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 1)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 2)
    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
    • Masonry 1
    • Masonry 2
    • Masons' Arms
    • Masons' Arms (Tyne)
    • Odd Fellows
  • Maritime
    • Flag That's Braved 1000 Years
    • Jack on a Cruise
    • Jack's Safe Return - The Token
    • 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
    • Dixon Austin Pictorial Inscriptions
    • Dixon, Phillips & Co Inscriptions
    • Moore Inscriptions
    • Scott Inscriptions
  • Bridge over river Wear
  • High Level Bridge Newcastle
  • Months
  • Dawson Bachelor / Supper Sets
  • Flowers
  • Frogs
  • Fordy & Patterson Puzzle Jugs
  • Victoria
  • Warburton Transfers
  • The Blue Flower Pottery