LARGE BURLEIGH WARE ENGLISH 1950S IRONSTONE CHAMBER POT / IDEAL MODERN PLANTER

A LARGE 26CM WIDE VINTAGE BURLEIGH WARE IRONSTONE CHAMBER POT, MADE BY BURGESS & LEIGH OF BURSLEM, ENGLAND. DATED 1940S TO 1960S ACCORDING TO MAKERS STAMP IS PRINTED ON THE BASE.
 
THESE CHAMBER POTS MAKE IDEAL PLANTERS OR PLANT POT STANDS. BURGESS AND LEIGH WERE ESTABLISHED IN 1851 AND ARE THE ONLY ENGLISH VICTORIAN POTTERY STILL MANUFACTURING POTTERY TODAY.

MARKINGS: BURLEIGH WARE BURGESS & LEIGH LTD BEAHIVE EST 1851 BURSLEM ENGLAND
NOTE THE BEEHIVE MARK AND "EST 1851". THE BURGESS & LEIGH PARTNERSHIP STARTED C.1862.
THE DATE OF 1851 REFERS TO THE ORIGINAL COMPANY UNDER THE NAME HULME AND BOOTH.
THIS PRINTED MARK WAS INTRODUCED AROUND 1940 AND USED UNTILL 1960.
 
Size: 13CM HIGH 26,5CM WIDE UP TO HANDLE 22,5CM DIAMETER
 
CONDITION:NO CHIPS. NO CRACKS. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.
 
BURLEIGH POTTERY (1851 present):
Burleigh Pottery (also known as Burgess & Leigh) is the name of a pottery manufacturer in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent.. The business specialises in traditionally shaped and patterned domestic earthenware of high quality.
The business 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.
Burgess and Leigh moved to different works, first in 1868 to the Hill Pottery in Burslem and then in 1889 to the present factory at Middleport.
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.
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 Read who worked here between 1926 and 1931.
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. In 2010 it was acquired by Denby Holdings Ltd. THEY STILL OPERATE FROM THE MIDDLEPORT FACTORY AND IS THE LAST SURVIVING VICTORIAN POTTERY FACTORY IN ENGLAND.
 
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