Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co






 

Location and period of operation:

Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co

Hanley  
Cauldon Place

1862

1904

 

Manufacturers of high-grade earthenwares and porcelain at Cauldon Place, Hanley (Shelton area), Stoke-on-Trent, England.  Also manufacturers of sanitary ware. 

  • In December 1861 William Bates resigned from the business of Bates, Brown-Westhead & Moore and the company became Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. 

  • The partners included Thomas Chappell Brown-Westhead, William Moore, James Moore, Robert George Scrivener and Edward Moss. 

  • The company exhibited at many of the International Universal Exhibitions, winning a gold medal in Paris in 1878.

 

Previously: Bates, Brown-Westhead & Moore  [1859-61] 

Subsequently:  Cauldon (Brown-Westhead & Moore) Ltd.  [1905-20] 


Cauldon Place, Stoke Road.

1893 trade journal entry for Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co.

 


 


T C Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co
The Pottery Gazette, American and Canadian Edition, January 1st 1880

 


T C Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co
Advert in the hnadbook to the 1893 'World's Columbian Exposition', Chicago

 


London Gazette, June 6, 1882

 
notice that James Moore (deceased) was no longer
a partner in the business

 


 


sanitary ware by Brown-Westhead Moore & Co - possibly a water tank 

 


T.C. Brown-Westhead
Moore & Co

the impressed numbers are probably workman marks - added by 
the people producing the ware - as a form of quality control 


 


bowl in the Trentham pattern 

B W.M. & Co 

 


 

 


Registered design number: 226910
Registered: 1 February 1869
Proprietor: T C Brown-Westhead, Moore and Company.
Address: Cauldon Place, Staffordshire Potteries, Staffordshire.
Subject: Tea service.

 


The registration diamond shows that this design was registered on the
1 February 1869

 


 


part of a large dinner set

the pattern is of game or farm birds with floral spray on the left side of the scene  


T C Brown-Westhead Moore & Co
impressed mark

The registration diamond gives a date of 25th September 1868 which was the date of the registration of the shape/design of the ware - this shape would have been used for a number of different patterns.

The registration number 80107 shows that the pattern itself was registered on the 3rd September 1887 and so the dinner set was made sometime in the 1887-1904 period

the other painted and impressed numbers are probably workman marks - added by the people producing & decorating the ware - as a form of quality control

photos courtesy: Sandra Hafenrichter

 


 


gilded plate in the registered pattern 92932 

the registration number 92932 shows that the pattern was registered on the 6th February 1888
the pattern is described as "A printed design comprising a bold spray of large petalled flowers with cone like stamens amidst leave and a leafy twig border motif"


T C Brown-Westhead
Moore & Co
impressed mark

the other painted and impressed numbers are probably workman marks - added by the people producing & decorating the ware - as a form of quality control 


photos courtesy: Barry Green 

 

 


 

NATURE 


NATURE
T.C. Brown-Westhead Moore & Co
Cauldon Place
Staffordshire Potteries
England

The 'Nature' series draws on the Arts & Craft movement and mostly depicts a range of
birds and plants. Predominantly produced in blue and white - occasionally hand coloured.

 

   

 

     

hand coloured examples supplied by: Annette Clark 


 

Marks and initials used on ware for identification:

B W M

B W M & Co

 

click for more information on marks...

 

 


1893 article on Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co.



The Cauldon Place works 

- click picture for more -

 


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