New collectors of Torquay Pottery normally start by buying all pots that they can find, however this often leads to a themed collection after a few years. The range of themes which confront the collector are legion, and this page attempts to suggest some of them.
Seasons: Christmas/winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn
Place names: Place-names
Mottoes: Sayings, Poetic, Dialects, Nursery Rhymes
Patterns: Scandies, Cottages, Cockerels, Flowers, Scrolls, Kingfishers, Ships & Boats, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Seagulls
Terracotta: Vases, Figures, Decorated Plaques
Animals: Cats, Dogs, Farmyard
Grotesques: inc. Pixies
Types of Pottery: Teapots, Coffee Pots, Cups & Saucers, Eggcups, Shaving Mugs, Puzzle Jugs, Plates, Biscuit Barrels, Vases, Jugs, Match-strikers, Inkwells, Scent Bottles, Toastracks, Tygs, Udder Vases, Tobacco Jars
Faience-ware: Named Scenery, Unnamed Scenery, Animals
Advertising: Products, Breweries
Commemoratives: Military, Personal, Royal Jubilees and Coronations
Miniatures
Toby Jugs: