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 COTTAGEWARE

The Torquay potters produced pots decorated with cottages using various techniques;  painting with pigments (faience), painting with slips. molding cottage shapes.  The pots decorated by painting with slips and usually included a motto or saying scribed into the slip (sgraffito). 

Faience Cottages.

 These finely painted pots were largely "generic" cottages.  However, a few named cottages such as Shakespeare's Cottage were produced.

 Faience Cottage teapot with screw-on silver lid by Watcombe           Shakespeare's  House

Slip Painted Cottages

Cottage teapot with "Inglenook" fireplace               

Winter scene cottages             

                                                                                                                   Cream & sugar with scraffito motto