For an overview of pink lustre plaques with religious subjects, click on the Pink religious heading above.

Thou god see'st me is the second most common verse found on plaques. Roughly speaking, I'd guess there were about 6 'Thou Gods' made for every 10 'Prepares'.  

As with the 'Prepares', the 'Thou God' verse was used by Maling from 1817, and by Dixon, Austin & Co from the early 1820s. Click on the Maling plaques and Dixon plaques pages to see examples from these ownerships, which are outside the scope of this page. 

The earliest plaques tend to be circular (though Maling also made small rectangular versions), and often the text is hand painted. Cornfoot, Colville and Co, 1829–c1832, made a transferred version with the verse in floral wreath.  Unlike the corresponding 'Prepare', there is no trumpeting angel or verse at the top.

The Sunderland engraver who made 4  Prepare to meet thy god transfer plates ('Sunderland plate 1', 'Sunderland plate 2', 'Sunderland plate 3' and 'Sunderland plate 4') engraved counterpart 'Thou Gods' with the trumpeting angel and verse.  He made plates for Scott (plate 1), Newbottle (plate 3) and Moore (plate 4).  N.B. he does not appear to have engraved a pair to Sunderland plate 2.

Cornfoot, Colville & Co, of the North Shields Pottery (later known as Low Lights), produced transfer‐printed and hand-painted 'Thou God' plaques 1829–1832. Press anouncements show that the firm continued as Cornfoot, Carr & Co from 1832–1838. The plaques on the top row have the 'C. C&Co' impressed mark, which could have been used by either partnership.  See other similar plaques on the C, C & Co page.

The above plaques are attributed to Southwick on the basis that the Wesley transfer associated with Scott appears on most of these plaque forms. The transfer has an easily distinguishable fault. Instead of the verse at the top reading 'In thee O Lord...', it begins 'In the O Lord...'.
   

The c1830's plaque above is attributed to Newbottle on the basis of its similarity to a 'Praise Ye the Lord' plaque presented to the V&A by descendents of the owners of the Newbottle 'High' Pottery. Click here to read more about the attribution. The Newbottle 'Thou God' transfer plate appears to have been acquired by Scott sometime c1845.  NB: The circles to the left of the flowers (right detail) aren't connected to the sprig by stalks. The leaf under the letter 't' in 'thee' (centre detail) is shaded on the right side.

The first plaque below is of an identical form to one of the plate 2 'Prepare' plaques (see the Prepare to meet thy god page). However, this 'Thou God' is from the same transfer plate as the Newbottle-attributed plaque above, as are those beneath it.  As yet, no 'Thou God' transfer plate has been found to pair with the plate 2 'Prepare' (if one existed, we might expect the leaf under the letter 't' in 'thee' to also be shaded on the right, but for the circles to be connected to the sprig by stalks).

The above plaques are c1840s–50s. The verse at the top reads 'In thee O Lord...'. Though attributed to Scott, none of them is marked. Unlike the corresponding 'Prepare' plaques, the spacing of the lettering is compressed on all of the 'Thou' plaques, so that 'thee' and 'O' run into one word. It has been suggested that perhaps the transfer plate originally read 'In the O Lord...' (as in the section above) and that an extra 'e' was squeezed in at a later date. A strong argument against this is that the 'the' transfer plate (Sunderland plate 1) continued to be used throughout the c1860s–70s.  N.B. it appears on orange lustre plaques. Click here to read about the basis on which they are attributed.

Though the brown-bordered plaques (c1850s–60s) above are unmarked, they are attributed to Scott on the basis of the similarity of their transfers to those found on bowls with impressed marks. Transfers of ships found on marked bowls also appear on brown-bordered plaques. The last plaque has rare blue borders.

The first plaque has a Moore & Co impressed mark (shown beneath it). The next two plaques are attributed to Moore & Co. Their rectangular mould is smaller than its Scott-attributed counterpart above. The last plaque is of a rarer form used by Moore & Co, but this example isn't marked.  See the Landscapes page for a similar plaque with the printed 'S. Moore & Co' mark and the pattern name 'Waverley'. All four plaques have transfers from the same plate. Note that in the first detail the leaf under the letter 't'  in 'thee' is shaded on the left side. In the second detail, note that the circles to the left of the flowers are connected with stalks. 
 

On the left is an unusual pink-transferred plaque.  I've included a red-bordered plaque with an identical transfer, because it is easier to see. The wreath is rounder than that on the C. C. & Co transfer.  In fact, it is very similar to the transfer in the Dixon section below, but there are many subtle differences, e.g. the 'D' in 'GOD' on the Dixon version has 7 diagonal stripes running through it, whereas on this transfer it has 4.

The first two plaques have the Dixon, Phillips & Co anchor impressed mark, which appears to have been used from c1834–c1850. The second three plaques have the Dixon Co impressed mark, which was likely used from c1851 until the Garrison Pottery closed in 1865. The final plaque is typical of the pottery's late production.  It has pink, rather than copper, lustre edges, and the transfer imprint is weak.

It appears that Scott purchased the transfer plates for Dixon's common religious verses, when the Garrison Pottery closed in 1865.  The first two plaques below, although unmarked, are attributed to Scott of Southwick. The third (orange) plaque is a form associated with Moore & Co. Scott transfers often appear on plaques from moulds associated with Moore.

See the Prepare to meet thy god page for a similar plaque with an impressed mark with the Stockton coat of arms – an anchor and cable impaling a castle - used by the Stockton Pottery of Thomas Ainsworth. The pottery was founded in the 1840s and closed in 1901.

The plaque above comes from an as yet unidentified Tyneside pottery – Maling perhaps. It comes from the same transfer plate as the larger of the plaques attributed to Carr below. However, it was made at an earlier date c1830s–40s.

The first plaque has an as-yet-unidentified crown impressed mark. The ones with green corners are sometimes attributed to Maling. The moulds are similar to plaques marked Maling. Green decoration was also associated with Maling plaques.  However,there are similar plaques with green corners, e.g. La Polka, with the printed mark 'B & Co'. Ian Sharp has identified the mark as the Tyneside company J Burn & Co from the Stepney Bank Pottery, Ouseburn, 1852–1860. The final plaque had a hand-painted inscription of which traces of only the first three letters remain 'Cat...'.