Best Ware & its Borders - Part Two

During 2023, Barbara Anne Lee from Melbourne in Australia began to study the many different borders that Carlton Ware used on its Best Ware patterns.
Most were printed in gold. Barbara then created beautiful images of these embellishments.

This page, which serves as an index, is the second in a series that leads you to view Barbara's excellent work. It lists Horace Wain's Chinoiserie patterns for which borders were devised, though excludes those without such dedicated borders.

Articles begin with notes about each pattern, along with illustrations of some of its variants.

After being appointed designer and decorating manager at the Carlton Works in Copeland Street around 1913, Horace Wain introduced patterns that were based on designs found on seventeenth and eighteenth century ceramics. Some of these were copies or interpretations of patterns used on Chinese porcelain from the Kang Hsi period 1662-1722; some were based on the copies or interpretations of the aforesaid by long established British potteries such as Spode and Royal Worcester. (Big Fleas have little fleas...)

Names and vignettes of patterns in this category that also had an associated border are shown below. They are in chronological order according to when they first appear in pattern records.

To view a pattern in more detail and see its associated border/s click or tap on the images below.

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WILLOW First is 590	Indian Tree Peony First is 594	Nankin First is 2021
ROCKERY & PHEASANT First is 2071	Basket of Flowers First is 2181	COCK & PEONY First is 2250
MIKADO First is 2335	Blue Rocks & Blossom First and only is 2466	TEMPLE First is 2481