Vintage Long Park Torquay Devon Motto Ware Pottery Coffeepot 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 motto ware - pottery such as plates or jugs decorated with inspirational or humorous text often written in a Devon dialect and thus known as Devon motto ware. 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. The first pottery, the "Watcombe Terra Cotta Clay Company" (later Watcombe Pottery; acquired in 1901 by the nearby Aller Vale Pottery), was established in 1875 by G. J. Allen, after he discovered a particularly fine clay in the grounds of Watcombe House. Other potteries included the Longpark Pottery (1883; originally the "Longpark China and Terracotta Works, in the Long Park district, which closed in 1957. **Fast dispatch