Best Ware & its Borders - Part Three

Enoch Boulton's Bird Patterns & Borders
December 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 approximately eight-year tenure at the Carlton Works, Boulton introduced around twenty different bird patterns, most having many variants achieved by using different grounds and colour schemes.

So far, this page serves as an index listing articles on the first eighteen of Boulton's bird patterns. The remaining two will follow. Each article begins with notes about the pattern, together with illustrations of some of its variants. In addition, each article features the borders used with the pattern, 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 Carlton Ware's pattern records. To view a pattern in more detail and see its associated border(s), click or tap on the images below.