Caughley porcelain is the soft-paste porcelain made at the Caughley works near Broseley in Shropshire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The factory was also known as the Salopian China Manufactory, and its products are often referred to by collectors as Salopian ware.
The porcelain works was developed by Thomas Turner, who had worked at Worcester and joined the Caughley pottery in 1772, and porcelain was being produced there by around 1775. Caughley is celebrated above all for blue and white wares decorated with underglaze transfer printing, including tea and coffee services, dinner wares, mugs, jugs and small items such as eye baths and asparagus servers. Patterns were frequently chinoiserie in style, and the factory is associated with the early development of English willow-type designs. Some pieces were finely painted and gilded. Its output is often close to Worcester in appearance, and marks include a crescent, an S, a C and the word Salopian impressed. In 1799 the works was acquired by the Coalport proprietors, including John Rose, and it closed in 1814, much of its later white porcelain being decorated at Coalport. Condition and rarity of shape both affect value.
