Success to the Shipping Trade... – Tyneside
Attributed to Bird & Co, North Shields, 1823–1826? – without title
I don't have a clear image of the transfer below, but it appears to be from the same copper plate as the Cornfoot, Carr & Co examples below that don't have a title. This creamware jug is likely from the early 1820s.
Attributed to Cornfoot, Colville & Co, North Shields, 1828–1832, or Cornfoot, Carr and Co, North Shields, (1832–1838) – with title
I have attributed this jug (once in the Tolson collection) to one of the earlier North Shields partnerships on the basis that the yellow enamelling on the sails matches the Bird-attributed jug above. The red decoration appears on earlier wares, including items associated with the Alnwick election (1826).
Note the very neat horizontal lustre stripes on the handle. They would become a signature for North Shields, but are applied in a more slap-dash way on later items.
Note the very neat horizontal lustre stripes on the handle. They would become a signature for North Shields, but are applied in a more slap-dash way on later items.
Attributed to Cornfoot, Carr and Co – without title
Below is the more familiar version of the transfer without the title underneath. This example has the earliest inscription that I've found with a date 1834. The strokes on the handle are freer than those on the jug above. Photos courtesy of pickleherring-antique British pottery.
Another example with black enamelled sails. NB black sails would have been a common sight on shipping transporting coal on the 'Coaly Tyne'.
Below, a huge and finely potted North Shields jug with the transfer and a hand-painted inscription. The marks on the handle are relatively neat.
The jug above is attributed to the Cornfoot, Carr & Co partnership (1832–1838) on the basis of the very similarly decorated jug below with the inscription 1836.
A rare and relatively early chamber pot with an identically decorated transfer.
The jug below, also with similar decoration, has an unusual combination of religious and shipping transfers, with the erased factory mark of an earlier North Shields partnership, 'Collingwood & Beall'.
The second jug below has yellow enamelling over the sails similar to the titled, earlier examples at the top of the page.
Another jug from the 1830s with a hand-painted inscription, but no date.
Attributed to Cornfoot, Carr and Co – without title, green enamels
The green decoration on this jug appears to be an attempt to emulate Robert Maling's nearby Ouseburn Bridge Pottery in Newcastle. However, the Maling jugs with green flecks from the 1830s, never have the distinctive lustre decoration to the handle mentioned above.
Attributed to Cornfoot, Carr and Co – without title, blue foot
More rarely, the transfer is found on handsome blue-footed jugs, again with the marks on the handle. The distinctive blue foot appears to be peculiar to North Shields in the 1830s.
First below, a small blue-footed jug, and beneath it a larger one with the Fortune Hunter transfer. The straw-coloured enamelling of the sails on the second jug is similar to the jug above.
Attributed to Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery or
Bird & Co, North Shields, 1823–1826?
Received wisdom firmly attributes these jugs to North Shields, although I'm not sure on what basis. They share the same transfers as the green-flecked jugs that I now believe were made by Maling. It is possible that the transfer plates passed between the two potteries at some point, but the items below have little resemblance to anything else on this page.
Attributed to Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery or
Cornfoot, Colville & Co, North Shields, 1828–1832
This mug has bold red decoration like the C, C & Co jug at the top of the page. However, the green fleck decoration on the jugs makes it more likely, in my view, that these items were made by Robert Maling.
