Just as you would imagine, being compiled by the Torquay Pottery Collectors Society, this book contains everything you need to know about Devon Pottery including all the backstamps, potters, artists, pattern numbers, etc.. Includes stunning pictures of this very collectable pottery.
Contents:
Century of Ceramics
Royalty & the Torquay Potters in the Victorian Era
John Phillips & the Villages of the Three Wells
Early days at Torquay Terracotta Company
Watcombe
Exeter Art Pottery
Art Ware of Longpark Pottery
Lemon and Crute
Tor Vale, Lemon & Vale and Daison Potteries
Torquay Pottery Company
Devonmoor Art Pottery
Torquay Grotesque and Model Animals
Birbeck Family of Decorators
William Higginbottom - Master Turner
Alexander Fisher (Snr)
Domenico Marcucci - the "Italian" at Aller
Charles Collard and the Scroll Patterns
Bill Howard - Pottery Artist
Christopher Dresser and the Torquay Potteries
Grotesque by design
Torquay Pottery Pattern Codes
Decorating Techniques
Devon Tors Pottery
Bovey Tracey Pottery
Longpark Pottery
John Skinner of Kingskerswell
Who's Who of Pottery Workers
Watcombe Flower Pots & Wall Pockets
Marks and Backstamps