Friday 8 March 2019












Multiple lots of Sunderland Lustre
To be offered at auction in our Antique and Interior Sale Wednesday 13th March

Mostly made in the early 19th century Sunderland lustreware is a type of lustreware pottery made in several potteries around Sunderland.
There were supposedly 16 potteries around Sunderland and 7 of them produced the lustrewares.
Lustreware was not made in England before the start of the 19th century, and was initially developed in Staffordshire, where Wedgwood developed a pink or gold lustre finish about 1805, which they sold as "Moonlight".

The Sunderland factories mostly made fairly cheap and popular pieces, many of them plaques, especially rectangular ones with "picture frame" edges, typically with moral or religious images and texts, and jugs feature a design incorporating the bridge over the River Wear, or various heraldic - especially Masonic - devices.  These might be a transfer-printed image of a ship, celebrity, or building, or a painted personal inscription (known as presentation pieces). Many used the "splash lustre" effect, achieved by dropping drops of oil onto the lustred piece before firing.  Typical colours used are pink, orange and purple.

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