Cauldon Place Works
'Buckingham' Table Shape
For a dessert shape with a similar rim, but without the edge moulding click here.
All entries from the factory pattern description books are reproduced courtesy of The V&A/Wedgwood Collection.
The only piece of this shape illustrated in Godden's Ridgway Porcelains (1985) is a dinner plate from the J. P. Westhead service on p.222, Plate 193.
John Ridgway & Co.
Unknown Pattern 3
The dinner plate is 263mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2020
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Pattern 7544
The pattern book covering 7544 has not survived, but the pattern is referenced by two later pattern entries, 8295 and 8364. 8295 is: 'Buckingham China Table as 7544 in Marone', whilst 8364 is: 'Buckingham Table Plate as 7544 only in Marone'. So it appears 8295 and 8364 are the same pattern. This happened quite often.
The dinner plate is 254mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © David Blakeman 2021
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Pattern 8601
The pattern book entry for pattern 8601 reads:
'Buckingham China Plate, Mazrine [sic] Blue Border, Straw & Col'd festoons. I.B. in Centre in Garter (done for G. Smith)'.
It is not clear what 'I.B.' stands for. When I first saw the entry I thought it was the customer's initials, but now I see a plate I'm not sure.
The dinner plate is 260mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Buckinghamshire Antiques 2020
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The "J. P. Westhead" service
For dessert wares from the same service see here.
The dinner plate is 260mm in diameter. Bone china.
Joshua Proctor Westhead (1807-1877) was a Manchester merchant and manufacturer, and Director of the London and North-Western Railway Company. He was Member of Parliament for Knaresborough 1847-1852, and for York 1857-1865 and 1868-1871.1 His father, Edward Westhead, had married Ann Brown, heiress to Lea Castle at Wolverley, which property Joshua duly inherited.2 By Royal dispensation in 1850 Joshua changed his surname to Brown-Westhead, at which point he was permitted to quarter his arms with those of Brown.3 Thomas Chappell Brown-Westhead, who took over Cauldon Place from John Ridgway, was his youngest son.4
The presentation, along with a magnificent service in silver, was made on Tuesday 15 June 1847 at the Albion Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester, by the shareholders of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company in recognition of his work as Chairman of that company prior to its absorbtion into the London and North-Western Company.5
Photos © Robert Hawker 2017
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Pattern 9358
These plates appear to have been made as additions to the "J. P. Westhead" service in or after 1850 marking the quartering of the arms of Brown with those of Westhead.
The dinner plate is 260mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2023
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Notes.
1. Tombstone in St John the Baptist Churchyard, Wolverley.
2. Obituary notice, Illustrated London News, 11 August 1877.
3. Notice under "General Intelligence", Bradford Observer, 21 February 1850. J. Bernard Burke, The Heraldic Register 1849 - 1850 (1850), entry for 31 January 1850.
4. Marriage report of T. C. Brown-Westhead, Worcestershire Chronicle, 26 September 1860.
5. Report on presentation dinner, Manchester Times, 18 June 1847.
Thanks are due to Patricia Halfpenny for sending me some of the press cuttings.