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Set up in 1881 by John
Phillips after the Aller Vale Pottery (est 1865) burnt down. The worker were
often recruited from the Newton Abbot School of Art. Workers included Charles
Collard, later of the Honiton Pottery who worked there from c1886 - 1902.their
product was stock by Liberty and Co c1887 - 1901.
In 1897 Phillips died and the business
was acquired by Hexter Humpherson & Co and by 1901 there had merged with
Watcombe Pottery to become the Royal Aller Vale and Watcombe Pottery company.
The factory finally closed in 1924.
There main products were the
motto ware for the tourist trade. However there Art ware included a range of
grotesque animals and beasts, the design of which are attributed to Blanche G Vulliamy. Such as frogs dragons.
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