Cauldon Place Works
'Talbot' dessert shape
and later table shape
All entries from the factory pattern description books are reproduced courtesy of The V&A/Wedgwood Collection.
Geoffrey Godden illustrates part of a dessert service of Pattern 6782 of this shape in his Ridgway Porcelains (1985), p.116, Plate 124. He also illustrates an oval dish of Pattern 6/2767 on p.226, Plate 197.
John Ridgway & Co.
T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore, & Co.
Cauldon Ltd.
John Ridgway & Co.
Pattern 6558
The dessert plate is 235mm in diameter. Bone china.
There is some wear to the gilding, but the principal details can still be seen.
The central group appears to be printed and then filled with enamel washes.
The Royal Arms mark with inescutcheon of Hanover was technically only accurate up to 1837, but the factory used the mark well into the 1840s.
Photos © Buckinghamshire Antiques 2021
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Pattern 6741
The dessert plate is 232mm in diameter. Bone china.
The dessert plate is 232mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2023
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Pattern 6758
The three dessert plates are 235mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Willa Latham ~ Gentle Rattle of China 2020
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Pattern 6765
The rectangular dessert dish is 293mm long and 236mm wide. Bone china.
This is the John Ridgway version of the Royal Arms mark, but without the initials JR.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 7131
The dessert plate is 230mm in diameter. Bone china.
The third figure is faint, but it appears to be a "3".
Photos © Tracy Skeates 2022
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Pattern 7761
The round dessert dish is 261mm long and 227mm wide. Bone china.
This is the John Ridgway version of the Royal Arms mark with the initials JR.
The dessert plate is 239mm in diameter. Bone china.
No backstamp on dessert plate.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 7952
The dessert plate. Bone china.
This is the John Ridgway version of the Royal Arms mark, but without the initials JR.
Photos © Zoe Burch 2019
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Pattern 8175
The comport is 356mm long, 292mm wide, and 178mm tall. Bone china.
The round dessert dish is 260mm long, 229mm wide, and 38mm tall. Bone china.
Photos © Jackie Casey 2021
The dessert plates are 229mm in diameter. Bone china.
Due to wear, these images were taken from a pair of plates, the front from one plate, the back from the other. The back stamps are identical, but both pattern numbers are included.
This is the John Ridgway version of the Royal Arms mark, but without the initials JR.
The third digit of the pattern number is a little ambiguous on the right hand plate, but clear on the other.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 8176
The oval dessert dish 311mm long and 235mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Jackie Casey 2022
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Pattern 8270
The pattern book describes this pattern as:
'Talbot Dessert Seconds, Purple May Flower Enald Rose Colour Green &c Yellow Green Band & Fawn Edge'.
The oval dessert dish is 316mm long and 251mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
The fact that this is a seconds pattern probably explains the staining on the high points where the glaze has drawn back.
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Pattern 8582
The pattern book describes this pattern as:
'Talbot Shape China Dessert Flowing Blue & Buff filled in flowers (Lustre Edge) finished in orange (Seconds).'
The dessert plate is 235mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Jackie Casey 2023
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Pattern 8805
The pattern book describes this pattern as:
'Talbot Dessert as 8582 only in Straw instead of Fawn.'
For 8582 see above.
The rectangular dessert dish is 292mm long, 241mm wide, and 44mm tall. Bone china.
This pattern number is clearly wrong. Unfortunately for researchers incorrect pattern numbers occur too often on Cauldon Place wares. Thankfully the number is correct on the oval dish below.
The oval dessert dish is 311mm long, 235mm wide, and 44mm tall. Bone china.
Photos © Jackie Casey 2022
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Pattern 8831
The first dessert plate. Bone china.
The second dessert plate. Bone china.
Photos © Lorna Marchi 2020
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The "J. P. Westhead" service
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
For table wares from the same service see here.
The service bears no pattern number but it is likely it would be in the 9000s if it had done so.
Each plate has a different view of somewhere in Europe.
"High Tor", Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. Dessert plate. Bone china.
The source print is from a drawing by T. Allom, engraved by J. W. Lowry. c.1836.
"St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall". Dessert plate. Bone china.
The source print is from a drawing by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield.
A considerable amount of detail has been removed from the foreground by the plate decorator.
"Penrhyn" Castle near Bangor in north Wales. Dessert plate. Bone china.
The source print is after a drawing by Henry Gastineau, engraved by J. C. Varrall. c.1830.
John Rennie's "Kelso" Bridge, Scottish Borders. Dessert Plate. Bone china.
The Battlefield of "Waterloo", Belgium. Dessert plate. Bone china.
The source print is after a drawing by T. Cooper, engraved by R. Brandard.
The four peaks of "Les Quatre Fils Aymon" and the remains of Château-Regnault at Bogny-sur-Meuse, Ardennes, France. Dessert plate. Bone china.
The source print is after a drawing by Shepherd.
"Bingen, Rhine" Bingen am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, showing the spire of St. Martin's and the bridge over the River Nahe. Dessert plate. Bone china
The source print is from William Clarkson Stanfield, Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland (1833).
Photos © Robert Hawker 2017-2020
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Pattern 6/401
The dessert plates. Bone china.
Photos © Claude Henry Arsenault 2023
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Pattern 6/1907
The tall comport. Bone china.
The rectangular dessert dish. Bone china.
The oval dessert dish. Bone china.
The dessert plate. Bone china.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2021
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Pattern 6/2438
The rectangular dessert dish is 298mm long and 238mm wide. Bone china.
The oval dessert dish is 312mm long and 248mm wide. Bone china.
Only the oval dish has a pattern number.
The round dish is 267mm long and 235mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2020
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Pattern 6/3728
The dessert plate is 234mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 6/4625
The dessert plate is 237mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 6/6279
The oval dessert dish is 311mm long and 252mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore, & Co.
Cauldon Ltd.
Pattern B/6502
The dessert plate is 226mm in diameter. Bone china.
Stephen Pope is recorded as having decorated some of BWM's wares at the 1893 Chicago Exhibition.6
The dessert plate is 226mm in diameter, Bone china.
Photos © Bonnie Jean Seiwell ~ Lady in Decadence 2020
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Pattern B/6756
The dessert plate is 228mm in diameter. Bone china.
F. Hillman is recorded as having decorated some of BWM's wares at the 1893 Chicago Exhibition.7
The dessert plate is 228mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Bonnie Jean Seiwell ~ Lady in Decadence 2020
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Pattern B/8414
The round dessert dish is 233mm long and 223mm wide. Bone china.
At this late stage the heavily potted handled round dish shown under Pattern 7761 has evidently been replaced by a lightly potted shallow bowl.
There is no pattern number on the dish.
The dessert plate is 227mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern H/6135
An adaptation of the shape to tableware.
The dinner plate is 250mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Mostly tally marks: the impressed "2" for the blank maker, the "15" for the person who applied the transfer, and the second "H" for the painter, the first "H" being part of the pattern number.
The registration 199552 on 27 September 1892 was for 'A printed design comprising three exotic birds perched on foliate scrolls extending to form further scrolling and floral runners all over the plate'.
The registration 183243 on 18 November 1891 was for 'A design for a foliate scroll moulded rim to a flanged plate'.
Photos © Jeannette Hackbeil 2022
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Pattern H/6713
Another tableware pattern.
The 8 inch muffin is 199mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2019
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Pattern K/3543
The dessert plate is 222mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Bonnie Jean Seiwell ~ Lady in Decadence 2021
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Pattern K/9129
The dessert plate is 245mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Karen Adelwerth 2020
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Pattern P/475
The dessert plate is 228mm in diameter. Bone china.
Although the date of this plate is c.1908+, and therefore Cauldon Ltd., the mark belongs to the previous partnership.
Gilman Collamore & Co. were at this address between 1890 and 1920.
Photos © Diane Gorman Lytwyn 2021
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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.
6. G. A. Godden, Ridgway Porcelains (1985), p.198.
7. G. A. Godden, Ridgway Porcelains (1985), p.197.
Thanks are due to Patricia Halfpenny for sending me some of the press cuttings.