AN INSCRIBED SUNDERLAND LUSTRE CREAMWARE JUG

AN INSCRIBED SUNDERLAND LUSTRE CREAMWARE JUG, PROBABLY DIXON & CO PARTNERSHIP, C1815-20 transfer printed and painted in bright enamels with the 'NORTHUMBERLAND 74' signed Dixon & Co, Sunderland Pottery and the Wear Bridge signed I PHILLIPS HYLTON POTTERY, the front with verse 'Have communion with few' and inscribed in black enamel Mr George Wilds Norwich, 21cm hProvenance: The Tolson Collection of Sunderland Lustre, Sotheby's, 5 February 1998, lot 367, (Catalogue back cover illustration) to the present vendor.The present jug dates from shortly after the amalgamation of the Phillips and Dixon & Co's potteries in 1815 after which the engraved copper plates were shared