Torquay Miniature Pottery yet to be priced
This beautiful collection will be at Central Flea in Mt Eden tomorrow August 25,2024.
Some have minor faults, but all the same a stunning collection.
Torquay pottery or Torquay ware is pottery made in Torquay, Devon, England, using local clay, at one of fifteen or so local potteries chiefly serving the tourist trade, The commonest form was mottoware - pottery such as plates or jugs decorated with inspirational or humorous text, often written in a Devon dialect, thus known as Devon mottoware. Some items were produced in Cornish dialect, for "export" to, and sale in, Cornwall. Novelty items with no functional use were also produced, but are rarer.
Miniature pottery
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