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>Hello everyone! I am seeking any info about a Pottery >by the name of H. Burgess in Burslem, Ohio I believe. >I have a large compote\comport. It looks like it is a >white-ish gray color and has no decals of any kind. It >has some raised shapes inside the flattish type bowl >but I can't make out what they would be. There are >four designs. They are set up so that the ones >identical twin is situated directly across the bowl >from it. Two of the designs are longer than the other >two. They look like they might be flowers but I really >can't say for sure. The base is stamped inside with >something that looks like it might be a shield with a >lion standing to the left and a unicorn standing on >the right. The shield has a small crown above it. >There is a banner underneath that and it is pooled >around the animals feet to either side and in the >middle it says something like, "DIEU E then something >I can't make out, then M and then another letter I >can't make out, then N, then eithor an O or D then R, >then either an O or C, then IT. Under this it reads >STONE CHINA and then under that it reads H. BURGESS, >BURSLEM. Please tell me there is someone out there who >knows something about this piece. It sort of looks >like a fruit stand or bowl. or what a pedestal type >cake plate would look like if it had the edges of the >plate raised gracefully up. It measures approximately >4-1/2 inches high and the plate\bowl part measures >approx. 9 inches in diameter and the base of the >pedestal measures approx. 4-1/2 inches in diameter. >The backstamp mark is in black. It has quite a lot of >crazing?, the little cracks that run all over the >piece. I would supremely appreciate some enlightenment >as to what it is, when it was made and approximate >moneary value, if any. It has one chip in underside of >plate at rim but doesn't come all the way to the top. >Thanks a lot, hoping someone will answer is the only >thing keeping me sane right now.

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