Name/Title
Middleport Pottery Nonpareil Burgess Leigh Dinner PlateEntry/Object ID
2020.S.08.07Description
Middleport Pottery nonpareil burgess leigh dinner plate. Scalloped edge with a small blue design on the border. Sides have flowers, double sets of scroll lines with small flowers in the middle and a leaf design between the sets of scroll. In the middle of these sets is a castle with two individuals in between. Middle of the plate features a castle with a man, woman and child at the bottom right. There is a stone bridge above the man's head and another structure in the background on the left with mountains.
Back has dark spots under the glaze on the rim and a few spots of missing color,
Burgess and Leigh In 1851, Messrs Hulme and Booth started an earthenware business in the central pottery in Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent. This pottery produced earthenware until 1862 when Mr William Leigh and Mr Frederick Rathbone Burgess formed a partnership and took over the running of the central pottery.
The Middleport Pottery The business moved to Middleport Pottery by the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1889, where you will find us today. Following the deaths of William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess, the business continued with the support of their sons, Edmund Leigh and Richard Burgess. The Leigh family took sole control of the business in 1912 when Richard Burgess passed away. https://www.burleigh.co.uk/pages/our-history
