Bushey Heath Pottery collection at Bushey Museum

The Museum has a significant collection of Bushey Heath Pottery items from the 1920's. William De Morgan was a celebrated London-based designer and potter of lustre-ware, polychrome pottery items. In the 1920s there was renewed interest in his artistic pottery, and Mrs Ida Perrin, a great admirer of this work, set up a pottery at their weekend house The Cottage in Bushey Heath. Fred Passenger was employed to make pottery to De Morgan’s designs.

Also in the 1920s Ida Perrin funded a new gallery extension to Leighton House which also acquired lots of De Morgan’s pottery, and many items from the Bushey Heath Pottery. And 2019 Leighton House generously donated their Bushey Heath Pottery collection to the Bushey Museum.

For more information visit https://busheymuseum.org/bushey-heath-pottery/