This little motto ware or mottoware dish or bowl was made by the Dartmouth Pottery of Devon, England and bears the following motto: Waste Not Want Not and the traditional cottage.

The mottoware dish or bowl was probably used for clotted cream, measures 3.75 inches in diameter by 1.5 inches high.

This little Torquay motto dish was made in the 1940-1950s. It is in very good  used vintage condition and very collectible and would be a great decorative accent for rings, paper clips or many things.

Famous and fun mottoware pottery was manufactured in the south of England from the 1870s until the factories closed in the 1960s.

Mottoware items are usually of red clay decorated with bright glazes, cottages and mottoes or sayings that run the gamut from proverbs and sound advice to nearly outrageous. Always fun and different and very collectible! A great piece for your breakfast egg and soldiers.