Best Ware & its Borders - Part Three

Enoch Boulton's Bird Patterns & Borders
May 2025

Around 1921-1922, Enoch Boulton, then in his mid-twenties, replaced Horace Wain as the decorating manager and designer for Wiltshaw & Robinson, makers of Carlton Ware. During his roughly eight-year tenure at the Carlton Works, Boulton introduced approximately twenty different bird patterns, some of which had many variants achieved by using different grounds and colour schemes.

So far, this page, serving as an index, lists articles on the first sixteen of Boulton's bird patterns. Articles on the remaining four will follow. Each article begins with notes about the pattern, along with illustrations of some of its variants. Additionally, each article features the borders used with the patterns, cleverly redrawn by Barbara Anne Lee.

The names and vignettes of these patterns are shown below in chronological order based on their first appearance in Carton Ware's pattern records. To view a pattern in more detail and see its associated border(s), click or tap on the images below.