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ˈSunderland The name of a town in Tyne and Wear, England, used attrib. to designate (a) a type of coarse cream-coloured ware, usu. decorated with a pink lustre and transfers, made there in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; also similar ware made elsewhere; (b) less frequently, a type of coarse brown earthenware made in Sunderland in the nineteenth century.
1870W. Chaffers Marks Pott. & Porc. (ed. 3) 587 The ware made here was..decorated with the pink metallic lustre so usual on the Sunderland jugs. 1874[see Newcastle pottery s.v. Newcastle1 2]. 1911J. F. Blacker 19th-Cent. Eng. Ceramic Art xvi. 396 The purple and pink lustre..decorated the white ware, which must be distinguished from ‘Sunderland ware’, the brown earthenware, resembling what is known in the trade as ‘rockingham’. 1920[see Pratt]. 1937J. R. Hodgdon Collecting Old Eng. Lustre v. 34 There are many large bowls, mostly of the late Sunderland ware... Mrs Harpur..is an authority on Sunderland lustre. 1951John & Baker Old Eng. Lustre Pott. xvi. 97 Sunderland Ware has always been reserved for a robust glazed brown earthenware lined with a white glaze and suitable for cooking. 1975P. D. James Black Tower iii. 87 A splendid Sunderland lustreware jug commemorating Trafalgar. 1979‘J. Gash’ Grail Tree xvi. 165 Dull pink lustres, universally known as ‘Sunderland’ ware, don't always come from Sunderland. |