• The partners were Bernard Moore and his younger brother Samuel Vincent Moore. 

• By 1881 they were employing 150 people at their pottery works. 

• The business ended in 1905 and the moulds and designs of Moore Bros. were sold. Some of the moulds were sold to R.H. & S.L. Plant. The Pottery Gazette, March 1906 notes that they "acquired most of the moulds belonging to Messrs. Moore Bros., late of St. Mary’s Works, High-street, Longton, and are now producing the beautiful art porcelain models for which that firm was celebrated." 

• The St. Mary's works was purchased by Thomas C. Wild and were leter to become the home of Royal Albert China. 

• Bernard Moore took premises at Wolfe Street, Stoke - he became a 'Consultant Potter' and manufactured pieces with spectacular glazes  and Samuel V. Moore appears to have left the potting business. 

the registration diamond shows that this pattern was first registered by Moore Bros. on the 18th March 1880 

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.
printed marks of Moore Bros on base

Moore Bros flower vase with cherub
impressed 'MOORE' on base

 
Moore Bros grotesque monkey figure.

An unusual bone china figure resembling a monkey or imaginary creature, with devil like features, walking down a tree stump hanging by its tail. Characteristic glass eyes. Covered all over in a vivid bright green glaze. Height approx. 6” (150mm).

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.