SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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Sunderland Bridge – Bridge 17


Moore & Co's Wear Pottery and Scott's Southwick Pottery

The transfer appears on wares attributed to both Scott and Moore.  Baker writes, that 'Scott's supplied earthenware to Moore's Wear Pottery [...] presumably plain for decoration' (Baker page 54).  The enamel decoration is consistent on all the items on this page suggesting they were decorated in one place.  This transfer does not appear on pink-lustre items from the 1860s.  So it is possible that it was commissioned as a replacement for bridge 18, which does not appear on orange lustre items.  Orange lustre appears to have been introduced sometime around the mid 1860s..
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Ian Sharp writes of this transfer: 'Transfer of the new levelled bridge, which was completed in 1859. This transfer bears the initials of William Mowat (W.M.), lower right-hand side. Other transfers bearing Mowat’s initials have appeared on pieces manufactured by Thomas Fell of Newcastle. Mowat worked as an engraver in Dean Street, Newcastle on Tyne in the 1850s–1870s.'

Two smaller lustre jugs with similar orange lustre and enamel decoration.

Another with wavy orange lustre decoration.

An unmarked bowl with similar decoration to the jug above.

The attractive green and orange enamelling on this bowl is unique to Moore's Pottery in the 1870s.  This bowl is dated 1873.

Two frog mugs with the transfer and 'Scott' frog.  The second frog (below) is undecorated.

The left plaque below is a form associated with Moore's, and the right of a form used by Scott's.  However, they were very likely enamelled by the same hand.

The transfer on a chamber pot.  The 'Oh Dear Me' transfer in the centre is more commonly associated with poorly executed and later items (c1880–1900) from Ball's Deptford Pottery.  Ball acquired many of the transfer plates from the Sunderland potteries, so where production by Moore & Scott ends and Ball begins, is anyone's guess.  See below for items firmly attributed to Ball's Deptford Pottery.

Ball's Deptford Pottery

The two bowls below could be as late as 1900.  Ball's was the last pottery in the North East to make so-called 'Sunderland Ware'.  They bought up transfer plates from both Wearside and Tyneside potteries, and mixed and matched them as they pleased.  The bowls have views of both the old and new Sunderland Bridge.

Sunderland Bridge 1859


Unidentified pottery

A rare version of the transfer on an eel pot or butter dish with its lid missing and likely made c1859.  I would love to find more items with this dated transfer.
The porcelaneous mug below with gilding is unlike anything produced by the North East potteries in the 19th century.  It could be that the transfer plate moved to Staffordshire at some point, or perhaps this mug was made in the 20th century.
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    • Crimea
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    • God Speed the Plough
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    • Mariners' Compass (early versions)
    • Mariners' Compass (flags)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 1)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 2)
    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
    • Masonry 1
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    • Masons' Arms
    • Masons' Arms (Tyne)
    • Odd Fellows (Grand Union of)
    • Odd Fellows (Independent Order of)
  • Maritime
    • 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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    • North Shields >
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  • Bridge over river Wear
  • High Level Bridge Newcastle
  • Commemoratives
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  • Flowers
  • Frogs
  • Garrison Pottery puzzle jugs
  • Stockton Money Boxes
  • Stockton Pottery - Thomas Ainsworth
  • The Blue Flower Pottery
  • Warburton Transfers
  • Continental export wares
  • Sherds from North Hylton