Alligator Clay Company

Category: Supplier Also called: Southern Pottery Equipment and Supplies; Southern Pottery Equipment & Supplies, LLC; Southern Pottery; Alligator Clay Co.; alligatorclay.com Last checked: 2026-10-07

What it is

Alligator Clay Company is a moist-clay manufacturer and pottery supply house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, owned by Southern Pottery Equipment and Supplies. The official About page: “Southern Pottery Equipment and Supplies is the owner of Alligator Clay Company where over 30 kinds of moist clay are manufactured and distributed,” using ingredients from mines across the USA, Canada, and England. Besides its own clay, it distributes brands including Laguna, AMACO, Spectrum, Coyote, Xiem, Kemper, Mud Tools, MKM, Skutt, Shimpo, Brent, L&L, and Giffin Grip, through a Baton Rouge showroom and the official online shop at alligatorclay.com. It is not a teaching studio and not a membership guild.

Who it’s for

Studio potters, schools, clay studios, and hobbyists in Louisiana and the Gulf South who need moist clay (low-fire, mid-range, cone 10, raku, sculpture, and class bodies), glazes and underglazes, tools, raw materials, kiln furniture, or kilns — picked up at the Baton Rouge showroom or shipped after a quote. Because shipping is quoted per order, it suits customers who can wait for a call or email with freight pricing. Not a class studio or open-studio space.

Why it’s listed

This is the first-party Southern Pottery / Alligator Clay Lightspeed shop (alligatorclay.com) with a printed Baton Rouge showroom address, phone, email, store hours, live product pages with prices and stock status, and printed shipping and return terms — not a scraped directory card and not an Amazon storefront.

• Contact / hours (site header, homepage, and About, checked 2026-10-07): Southern Pottery Equipment & Supplies, LLC, 2721 W. Perdue Dr., Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70814; 225-932-9457; contact@alligatorclay.com. Store hours: Tuesday–Friday 9:30–4:30; Saturdays 10:00–1:00.
• House clay examples (Alligator Clay category, checked today; 25 lb bag / 50 lb box): MC101 Rocket White $23.00 / $46.00; MC105 Gator White $22.00 / $44.00; MC210 Cinq Blanc $23.50 / $47.00; MC217 Peppered Creole $24.50 / $49.00; MC233 Groove Mix $25.00 / $50.00; MC299 ^6 Grolleg Porcelain $43.50 / $87.00; MC399 Grolleg Porcelain ^10 $47.50 / $95.00; Mid Range Sample Box $67.00. Several items were marked Pre-order, Sold out, or Discontinued (e.g. MC285 Griffin Brown) at check.
• Product detail examples (product pages, checked today): MC210 Cinq Blanc 25 lb — $23.50, In stock — smooth white stoneware, cone 4–6, also suited to mid-range salt and soda firing; shrink 4.81% (cone 05) / 11.91% (cone 6); absorption .47%. MC105 Gator White 25 lb — $22.00, In stock — white low-fire body for cone 06–04; absorption 14.39% (05) / 13.42% (04).
• Glazes / kilns (category pages, checked today): Mid-Range Glazes (Cone 4–6) lists AMACO, Coyote, and Spectrum lines, e.g. AMACO Celadon C-series cards at $22.00 each (container size not shown on the card). Kilns category lists Skutt and L&L items, e.g. Skutt FireBox 8×4 (1Ph, 115V) $1,410.00 (Pre-order) and kiln posts from $1.15.
• Shipping (Shipping & returns page, checked today): no automatic shipping calculator. Customers submit a cart or email an item list, and an associate calls or emails a shipping quote. Ships via USPS, FedEx, or freight for larger orders.
• Returns (Shipping & returns page, checked today): returns within 30 days for store credit only, original unopened packaging; restocking fee of up to 20%. Clay-result claims must be made within 30 days with receipt, and liability is limited to product replacement. Payment methods page lists Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

Prices and stock above are what the official shop showed on the check date. They change. Confirm on live product pages, and get a shipping quote, before ordering or treating any figure as fixed.

Official URL

Official shop / company site: https://alligatorclay.com/

Alligator Clay (moist clay category): https://alligatorclay.com/products/alligator-clay-165603001

MC210 – Cinq Blanc 25Lb: https://alligatorclay.com/products/mc210-cinq-blanc-25lb

MC105 – Gator White 25lb: https://alligatorclay.com/products/mc105-gator-white-25lb

Mid-Range Glazes (Cone 4-6): https://alligatorclay.com/products/mid-range-glazes-cone-4-6

Kilns: https://alligatorclay.com/products/kilns-165594862

About us: https://alligatorclay.com/products/pages/about

Shipping & returns: https://alligatorclay.com/products/pages/returns

Payment methods: https://alligatorclay.com/products/pages/shipping-payment

(Canonical first-party Lightspeed (Ecwid-based) shop checked 2026-10-07; cited URLs returned HTTP 200. The shop is slow: some product requests (e.g. the Bag (25lbs) subcategory and Mid Range Sample Box page) timed out at 15–25 s on first try, then returned 200; www. host did not respond — see Notes.)

Location

Southern Pottery Equipment & Supplies / Alligator Clay Company showroom: 2721 W. Perdue Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70814. 225-932-9457; contact@alligatorclay.com. Store hours Tue–Fri 9:30–4:30, Sat 10:00–1:00.

This is a clay manufacturer and ceramic supply house with an official shop URL. It is not a guild and not a membership teaching studio.

Notes

• Category is Supplier: manufactures and sells its own moist clay and resells glazes, tools, raw materials, kiln furniture, and kilns through alligatorclay.com and a Baton Rouge showroom. No classes or open studio are offered on the site.
• First Louisiana listing and first Deep South supplier on Clay Plaza (Louisiana previously appeared only as a region named in ClayHouston’s show eligibility). Away from recent CA/HI/MO, SC/CO/AZ, OR/PA/FL, and TX/MI/MN geos. It resells already-listed brands (Laguna Clay Company, AMACO, Spectrum Glazes) but is a separate manufacturer and retailer. Keep separate from Lapidary / Mahjong / Bee / Bonsai directories.
• Naming: the site title and legal entity are Southern Pottery Equipment and Supplies (LLC); the domain, logo, and house clay brand are Alligator Clay Company. Listed under the clay brand; cite both names.
• Footer copyright reads © 2024. Currency evidence at check: live product pages showing “In stock” status and prices, Sold out / Pre-order flags, and shop data showing catalog items created in Sept and Nov 2025. No closure notice. No 2026-dated announcement was found on the site.
• Store hours list Tue–Fri and Saturday only; Sunday and Monday are not mentioned (treat as closed, but this is not stated).
• No flat shipping rates are published — every order gets an individual quote. Do not invent shipping costs.
• The site’s Lightspeed/Ecwid storefront intermittently timed out (curl code 000 at 15–25 s) on some product URLs (Bag (25lbs) subcategory, Mid Range Sample Box) before returning 200 on retry; the homepage and every cited URL returned 200 on the final check.
• www.alligatorclay.com did not respond at check (curl 000); cite the apex https://alligatorclay.com/ URLs above.
• Prices were transcribed from official pages checked on 2026-10-07 and may change.
• Not affiliated with Clay Plaza.
• No Clay Plaza contact, purchase, quote request, or publication action was taken.
• First-party logo saved beside this listing as alligator-clay.png (Alligator Clay Company header logo from the shop’s Lightspeed CDN, 200 × 201).

FAQ

Q: Where is Alligator Clay and when is the store open?
A: The site header and About page (checked 2026-10-07) list the Southern Pottery Equipment & Supplies showroom at 2721 W. Perdue Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70814; 225-932-9457; contact@alligatorclay.com. Hours are Tuesday–Friday 9:30–4:30 and Saturdays 10:00–1:00.

Q: How much is Alligator clay?
A: Examples from the official shop (checked today): MC105 Gator White low-fire $22.00 per 25 lb bag; MC210 Cinq Blanc cone 4–6 stoneware $23.50 per 25 lb or $47.00 per 50 lb; MC399 cone 10 Grolleg Porcelain $47.50 per 25 lb. Some bodies were on pre-order or sold out. Confirm live pages before ordering.

Q: Does Alligator Clay ship, and what does it cost?
A: Yes, via USPS, FedEx, or freight for larger orders. The Shipping & returns page says there is no automatic calculator: submit your cart or email a list, and an associate will call or email a shipping quote. Returns are store credit only within 30 days, unopened, with up to a 20% restocking fee.

Q: Is Alligator Clay a studio or a guild?
A: Neither as its Clay Plaza category. It is a Baton Rouge clay manufacturer and pottery supplier with an official shop URL. For classes use a Studio listing; for association dues use a Guild listing.