SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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South East View of the Cast Iron Bridge – bridge 3


Unknown pottery

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Photo Ian Holmes
This transfer is very similar to the Phillips' version below.  However, note the reflections of the masts in the water to the left of the central ship.  Also, the flowers on either side of the central title.  On this example, the motto 'Nil Desprandum Auspice Deo', from Sunderland's coat of arms, can more clearly be seen. It broadly translates as 'Don't despair in God we trust'.

J Phillips, Sunderland Pottery – early imprint

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This transfer is an earlier incarnation of Baker's bridge 3, before the printed maker's mark, J Phillips, Hylton Pottery, was added (see below). 

This jug was likely made before 1815, when the North Hylton Pottery was bought by John Phillips from the Maling family.  Therefore, I've attributed it to Phillip's other pottery, the Sunderland (or Garrison) Pottery.  However, it is possible that Phillips acquired this transfer plate as part of the North Hylton Pottery sale, and that the jug was in fact made by Robert Maling.  That seems less likely to me as these copper plates were very valuable, and there is no obvious reason why Robert Maling wouldn't have taken it to his new pottery at Ouseburn Bridge.

J Phillips, Hylton Pottery – 1820s' imprints


​Here is a paradox, which I can only explain as an accident of fate.  By the time the marks 'J Phillips' (left detail) and 'Hylton Pottery' (right detail) appear on typical creamware mugs from the 1820s, the Phillips management of the Sunderland Pottery was over.  It's unclear even whether these transferwares were made at the North Hylton site.
The latter mystery could perhaps be solved if we found an example with a painted inscription, as we have a clear idea of the pot painter's hand at North Hylton.  We can be pretty confident that these items don't pre-date 1820 as they have washes of pink lustre, not found on earlier objects.
Another paradox is that the printed marks on the 1820s' creamware mugs (first two lines below), are much fainter than those found on pearlware items from the 1830s (last two lines below), to the extent that it appears an attempt was made to obscure these marks on the earlier items. NB John Phillips died in 1820.  Records in the Sunderland Museum show Alexander Phillips becoming more prominent in the management of the Sunderland Pottery from about 1825, which might explain the renewed confidence in using the Phillips' mark in the 1830s.

J Phillips, Hylton Pottery – 1830s' imprints

A pearlware mug with the re-engraved transfer with the added printed mark 'J Phillips' and 'Hylton Pottery' beneath it.  This mug is of a larger size and has a larger version of the Dixon, red-eyed, frog (see below centre, beside a smaller frog for comparison).
Although this bridge transfer bears the printed mark 'J Phillips' and 'Hylton Pottery', it appears in conjunction with transfers marked 'Dixon & Co' and 'Dixon, Austin & Co'.  The date of 1836 on the large inscribed jug below, places it towards the end of the Dixon, Austin & Co partnership (1818–1839).
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Below, the transfer on a smaller jug with the very rare transfer 'Ancient Order of Druids'.  Beneath that, two examples with a transfer commemorating 'Nelson'.  Given the similarities of decoration, it seems likely that all these items are from the 1830s.  Interestingly, the Nelson examples I have on file from the 1820s are paired with bridge 14.
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    • God Speed the Plough
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    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
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    • Flag That's Braved 1000 Years
    • Jack on a Cruise
    • Jack's Safe Return - The Token
    • O'er the Green Sea
    • 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 and Return - Maling type
    • Sailor's Return (Now Safe Returned From Dangers Past)
    • Sailor's Return - Seaham and Stockton type
    • 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
    • Gudrun
    • Life Boat
    • Majestically slow before the breeze... (Success to the Coal Trade)
    • Marco Polo
    • May Peace and Plenty...
    • May Peace Once More...
    • Norah Creina Steam Yacht
    • 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)
    • Victory
  • Verses
    • A little health...
    • 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...
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