SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • The sails unfurl, let the billows...
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West View of the Cast Iron Bridge – bridges 10 & 22

This view shows the Lord Duncan, the largest ship built in Sunderland at that time, passing under the bridge.  The ship was launched in 1798, just a couple of years after the bridge opened.  But any real acquaintance with the bridge would have been short lived, as she was blown up in 1807 by an explosion in San Domingo.  However, images of the ship passing under the bridge continued to be used by Dawson, North Shields and Moore & Co into the 1840s and 50s.

Dawson, Low Ford Pottery – bridge 10 early imprint

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Photo Lacy, Scott & Knight
This is an earlier (1805) incarnation of the transfer below.  Note that the oval shapes to the far left and right of the title are blank.  They would later be engraved 'J Dawson & Co' and 'Low Ford Pottery'.  The Bridge is paired with 'Lord Nelson engaging the Toulon Fleet of the Mouths of the Nile',  The Battle of the Nile was fought in 1798.

Dawson, Low Ford Pottery – bridge 10 later imprint

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An exceptionally crisp later imprint with bright over-enamels.  ​This is Baker's bridge 10, marked 'I. Dawson & Co, Low Ford Pottery'.   As with all the transfers on this page, the name of the ship, the 'Lord Duncan' can be seen on the ship's stern (see left).   The ship was the biggest built in Sunderland at that time, so another source of local pride passing under the bridge.

​The second larger mug below is from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.


The items below likely all made before 1820.  The second jug is from the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection, again with the Battle of the Nile transfer.
A jug of similar age and shape to the one above, decorated with hand-painted flowers.
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New Bedford Whaling Museum
The copper transfer plate in the Sunderland Museum below.
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Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

The transfer remained in use on slip-cast jugs into the 1850s.
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Photo Keith Cockerill

Attributed to Dawson, Low Ford Pottery – like bridge 22, plate 1 signed Ed Barker

This version of the transfer is almost identical to those that appear on lustre jugs from North Shields in the 1830s which have the bridge 22 shown in Baker.  The frog (Dawson type 2) is found on reliably attributable Dawson mugs.


The mug above has a thick-set looking frog with short legs.  This version of the transfer is signed 'Ed Barker'.  ​Below is, an almost identical mug, but without the frog, and another from the​ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.

Attributed to Dawson, Low Ford Pottery – like bridge 22, plate 2 early imprint

This ovoid jug and the mug below have a version of the transfer almost identical to the mugs above, except without the 'Ed Barker' signature.  The inscription on the mug is typical of those found on Dawson's items.  Both items are from the​ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.

Attributed to Dawson, Low Ford Pottery – like bridge 22, plate 2 later imprint

The images above are from the mug below.  The frog (Dawson type 1) is found on items reliably attributable to Dawson's.  Note that, unlike the mug above, there are two masts underneath the birds on the right side of the ship.

Small nicks / speckles show this is the same transfer as on the mugs above and below.  The enamelling and script is, however, unusual for Dawson's.  The inscription is dated 1819.

Apologies for the quality of the images, but you'll see that all the items above (details shown respectively below), have a small nick to the left of the top of the mast, of the ship passing under the bridge.  The transfer plate was at some point reengraved with two masts behind the houses to the right of the ship.

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    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
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    • Odd Fellows
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    • 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
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    • Phillips Inscriptions
    • Dixon Austin Dated Inscriptions
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    • Dixon, Phillips & Co Inscriptions
    • Moore Inscriptions
    • Scott Inscriptions
  • Bridge over river Wear
  • High Level Bridge Newcastle
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  • Flowers
  • Frogs
  • Fordy & Patterson Puzzle Jugs
  • Victoria
  • Warburton Transfers
  • The Blue Flower Pottery