BURGESS & LEIGH ENGLAND POTTERY ANTIQUE INDIAN TREE PATTERN DESSERT BOWL

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BURGESS & LEIGH ENGLAND POTTERY ANTIQUE INDIAN TREE PATTERN DESSERT BOWL OR FRUIT BOWL
Antique earthenware pottery bowl from Burgess & Leigh, England, in the Indian Tree Pattern.  This Dessert or Fruit bowl is in fair condition, and will be sold “as is”.  The slightly scalloped edge has a gold rim that is tarnished and there are wear and tear marks or scratches, but no chips out of the pottery itself. The bowl measures 7 ½ inches in diameter and 1 ¼ inches deep.  The background is off white with four groups of pink and magenta flowers on sides of the bowl.  The Indian Tree pattern is quite old and is an antique dinnerware pattern from the pottery company.
HISTORY of Burgess & Leigh -
The factory was established in 1851 at the Central Pottery in
Burslem
as Hulme and Booth. The pottery was taken over in 1862 by William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess, and traded from that date as Burgess & Leigh. The trademark "Burleigh", used from the 1930s, is a combination of the two names.
Leigh and Burgess died in 1889 and 1895 respectively, and were succeeded by their sons, Edmund Leigh and Richard Burgess. On Richard's death in 1912, the business passed entirely into the ownership of the Leigh family. In 1919 it became private
limited company
, Burgess & Leigh Limited.
The years between the wars are often regarded as the company's "golden age", with a number of extremely talented designers and artists such as Harold Bennett, Charles Wilkes and Ernest Baily. Perhaps the best known was
Charlotte Rhead
, who worked here between 1926 and 1931, noted particularly for her work in
tubelining
. The business took great pains, from as early as 1897, to build up a thriving export network, concentrating primarily on the
Empire
(later
Commonwealth
) and
American
markets, but later focused also on Europe.
After a run of financial difficulty the company was sold in 1999 to the Dorling family, Rosemary and William Dorling, and traded as Burgess Dorling & Leigh. The company specialized in traditionally shaped
and patterned domestic earthenware of high quality. In 2010 it was acquired by Denby Holdings ltd, the parent company of the
Denby Pottery
.
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