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Your Price: $ 115.00
Item Number: 0117201009
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Circa: 1940s - 50s
Condition: used, vintage excellent
Type: Motto Ware,
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Manufacturer: Watcombs, Torquay, England
Here is a piece of Motto Ware, otherwise known as "Devon Ware," from Royal Watcombe, Torquay, England. It is a double butter or relish dish. It is vintage 1940s.
The pottery dish is done in reddish brown, blue and white, and in "Old English" dark-brown lettering is written, "Will ee ‘elp yersel m’dear Fresh from the Dairy"" and " Seaton Cornwall" The sentiment was inscribed before the piece was fired. There is a matte finish to the inside of the dish, with a high-shine finish on the sides. The bottom is matte as well.
It measures 7 inches wide by 4 ½ inches deep and 3 ½ inches tall.
The dish is in perfect condition, with no chips, flakes, crazing, cracks, or damage of any kind.
This is a sweet little example of 40s Mottoware from England.
This famous and fun pottery has been manufactured in the south of England from the 1870s until the factories closed in the 1960s. It is usually of red clay decorated with bright glazes, cottages and mottos or sayings that run the gamut from proverbs and sound advice to nearly outrageous. Always fun and different and very collectible!
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