Cauldon Brown Westhead Moor Cup & Saucer Gold Gilt over Cobalt Blue Hand Painted

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Cauldon Brown Westhead Moor Cup & Saucer Gold Gilt over
Near perfect condition! Gold gilding are bright and all intact. Hand painted sets
Brown-Westhead, Moore and Co. worked from 1862 to 1904. About 1890, this firm started using the words Cauldon or Cauldon Ware as part of the mark.
During its late 19th Century heyday, Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. was one of the largest potteries in the world, winner of numerous international prizes, and a supplier to European royalty. Nowadays its porcelains in particular are appreciated for their boldness and originality of design.
The firm operated the famous Cauldon Place Works, in today’s Stoke-on-Trent, that Job Ridgway had established in about 1802 and were later used by his sons John and William. Thomas Chappell Brown-Westhead and William Moore took over the factory in December 1861. The new firm of T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. produced a vast array of ceramics between 1862 and 1904, from sanitary and toilet wares, majolica and tiles, to ornamental and table porcelain. In 1885, the Cauldon Place Works were said to cover an area of about 32 hectares, with 14 kilns and 20 ovens, and between 1400 and 1500 employees, making it there largest pottery in England. Brown-Westhead, Moore had imposing showrooms in London, Paris and Hamburg and won numerous prizes at international exhibitions held in Europe and the United States.