Cornfoot, Colville & Co, and Cornfoot, Carr & Co, North Shields Pottery
Cornfoot, Colville & Co, of the North Shields Pottery (later known as Low Lights), produced transfer‐printed 'Prepare' plaques 1828–1832. Press anouncements show that the firm continued as Cornfoot, Carr & Co from 1832–1838.
Click here to read Keith Bell's excellent Wikipedia page on the North Shields Pottery.
Click here to read Keith Bell's excellent Wikipedia page on the North Shields Pottery.
Hand-painted plaques
The first plaque has the 'C. C&Co' impressed mark for Cornfoot, Colville & Co, of the North Shields Pottery. The second and third are attributed to that pottery on the basis of the similarity of decoration and lettering. The first plaque is 167 mm diameter. The second plaque is 160 mm. The fourth plaque is later and has a distinctive script found on John Carr & Sons wares from the 1850s.
With hand-painted flowers
An untitled ship hand-painted on a circular plaque with an indistinct impressed mark for C, C & Co (Cornfoot, Carr & Co, 1832–1832). The strange apparition in the rigging is Charles Dibden's 'Sweet little cherub that sits up aloft'.
Common transfers
The left plaques, 167 mm diameter. Cornfoot, Colville & Co, of the North Shields Pottery (later known as Low Lights), produced transfer‐printed plaques 1828–1832. Press anouncements show that the firm continued as Cornfoot, Carr & Co from 1832–1838. The above plaques have the 'C. C&Co' impressed mark, which could have been used by either partnership. The marks shown above are from the plaques to the left of them.
Black-bordered plaques
The top two plaques with the impressed mark 'C. C&Co.' (the mark shown is from the plaque to its left). Note, the bottom left plaque has no verse above the angel.
Adam Clarke and John Wesley
Although the two plaques above have no impressed mark, like the C, C & Co plaques they are 167mm in diameter. The colour, quality and application of the lustre is also very similar. See the John Wesley page for a comparison with the very similar Scott transfer.
Other portraits
All of the plaques above date from c1832 and have the 'C. C&Co' impressed mark. Read more about their subjects – Queen Adelaide, King William IV, and Earl Grey – on the portraits page.
Also see the United Collections 'Reform' page.
Also see the United Collections 'Reform' page.
Tee Total Society
The left plaque with the impressed mark 'C. C&Co.' (centre). The right plaque is unmarked, and attributed to C, C & Co. Note that the transfers are different. Most obviously, the words 'TEE TOTAL SOCIETY' are enclosed in a ribbon banner on the right plaque.
Recycled transfers
The two very finely potted plates above are stamped 'C. C&Co', and have a hand painted inscription 'Louise Anderson London'. The transfers are recycled from an earlier partnership, and on one a printed maker's mark has been scrubbed out, for Collingwood and Beall North Shields' (see below), which ran from 1814 to 1819. See here for more details.
