Best Ware & its Borders - Part Three

INDEX

Enoch Boulton's Bird Patterns & Borders
February 2026

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 an estimated twenty different bird patterns, most with numerous variants achieved through using different grounds and colour schemes.

This page serves as an index to articles on all twenty of Boulton's bird patterns. 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, skilfully redrawn by Barbara Anne Lee.

Below, the names and vignettes of these patterns are shown 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.