• According to a 1914 article in The Connoisseur magazine Burton and Morris "commenced business before the middle of the nineteenth century". The article states that "the firm of Messrs. Thomas Morris, Ltd., famous for their Crown Chelsea china.... owes its existence to Messrs. Burton and Morris". 
  Source: C. Vernon, ‘Staffordshire Pottery’, The Connoisseur, Vol. XXXIX, 1914, p. 67.

• A partnership dissolution notice dated 20 April 1882 announced the retirement of Joseph Morris from the business which was continued by the remaining partners, Thomas Burton and Thomas Morris, who assumed responsibility for all outstanding debts and liabilities of the firm.

• Between April 1884 and June 1889 Burton & Morris registered 19 designs/patterns. 

• The company is not listed in trade directories after 1892. 

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Thomas Burton, Thomas Morris, and Joseph Morris, carrying on business as China Manufacturers, at Bagnall Works, Bagnall-street, Longton, in the county of Stafford, under the style or firm of Burton, Morris, and Co., has this day been dissolved, by mutual consent, so far as concerns the said Joseph Morris, who retires from the said partnership business, which will in future be carried on by the said Thomas Burton and Thomas Morris alone, by whom all debts due to and from the said firm will be received and paid.—Dated this 20th day of April, 1882.

Thomas Burton.

Thomas Morris.

Joseph Morris.

"A design in Aesthetic taste for lilac printed decoration, comprising stylised flowering plant clusters with perching birds separated by shaped panels containing 'rising sun' florets, a narrow wavy line and dot band at the rims" David Burton NCS

B & M

the registration number 6761 shows that the pattern was registered to Burton & Morris, Bagnall Street, Longton on the 14the May 1884

BM
(monogram)

LONGTON
ENGLAND

c.1890-92