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Moore
Bros |
Location and period of operation:
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Moore Bros |
Longton |
1872 |
1905 |
Bernard Moore and his younger brother Samuel Vincent Moore, manufacturers of china tableware and high quality ornamental pieces at St. Mary's Works, Longton.
By 1881 they were employing 150 people at their pottery works.In September 1905 the moulds, designs of Moore Bros. were sold and the St. Mary's works were sold to Thomas C. Wild.
Bernard took premises at Wolfe Street, Stoke and Samuel V. Moore appears to have left the potting business.Previously: Samuel Moore (& Son) (1859 - 1870/2)
Subsequently: Bernard Moore (at the Wolfe Street works) (1905-1915)
on the Moore family of potters
Advertisement from 1889 Keates directory
(from Staffordshire Potters by Henrywood)
Initials used on ware for identification:
MOORE
MOORE BROS
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Made by Moore Bros. during
the 1880's/90's it takes the form of a hollow flower head sitting in a
pair of cornucopia like stems which have 3 hollow apertures for
stems/buds, the whole being adorned to each side with an orchid.
This figure represents one of Bernard Moores earliest attempts at the production of quirky and grotesque animal figures and was probably produced around 1905 during the life of the Moore Brothers Pottery and prior to the experimental glazes and decoration techniques produced by Moore in his Wolfe Street Studio. This figure is known, decorated in the same colours, bearing the BM mark indicating decoration at some later date at the Wolfe Street premises. |
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email: Steve Birks
updated: 24 Feb 2004