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5/6/2012 0 Comments

The 'Sheriff Hill' Wesley

It was a delight to see the plate below 'in the flesh' this weekend, and to get some high resolution photos. The impressed mark 'J.&P' is for Jackson and Patterson of the Sheriff Hill Pottery, Gateshead, 1830–45 (N.B. R C Bell's 'Tyneside Pottery' book states the firm was run by Jackson & Patterson 1833–8, but records in the Sunderland Museum say 1830–45).
Those who know this site well will have seen that I've hung a whole raft of attributions on this one marked plate. So is the transfer on the plate the same as that on the unmarked plaques below?  I now feel certain that it is.  Look at the details on the right.  In particular, the letter 'N' in 'JOHN'. The top right of the letter is infilled – a flaw in the transfer that repeats on all the plaques below.  Note also the heavy left foot of the 'M', in Methodist. Again this flaw appears on all of the plaque transfers.
So could life really, for once, be that simple?  I'm afraid not. The first very small fly in the ointment is the plaque below. The 'N' in 'JOHN' is not infilled. However, judging by the very poor imprint (which I've darkened in Photoshop), I'd say this plaque was produced a decade or so later than those above. N.B. see a similar plaque dated 1846 on the Sheriff Hill page. I believe wear of the transfer plate accounts for this difference. There are still traces of the heavy foot in the 'M' of Methodist.
So far so good.  But look at this...  A Wesley plaque in the Willet Collection, Brighton and Hove Museums.  I've asked for a better photo, but with 'FOUNDER OF THE' in the title, this is clearly the Sheriff Hill Wesley, but on a plaque form more commonly associated with Robert Maling.
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This perhaps shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who remembers me posting Jim Railton's old catalogue entry below. 'FORGIVE, and ye shall be FORGIVEN' is a verse that also appears on plaques I've attributed to Sheriff Hill.
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The marked Sheriff Hill plate above has a lovely crisp transfer.  So it seems likely the transfer plate started its life there. But at what point did it, and the verse transfer plates, find their way to Maling?  Or did Sheriff Hill supply a batch of plain earthenware plates, with the 'J.&P' mark, to Maling for decoration? In which case all the plaques would be Maling, and not Sheriff Hill. Or perhaps Maling copied the Sheriff Hill transfers, so the plaques come from different transfer plates?  We'll know a bit more when I receive a better image.
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