But Rob Flello, Stoke-on-Trent South MP, said he was optimistic the firm would continue in the Potteries.
Mr O'Reilly said if the move went ahead, some prestige items would still be made in the Potteries.
This is an ancient, Precambrian (older than 590 million years) feature that runs up through Birmingham towards the Potteries.
Other items are currently on display at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, in Stoke-on-Trent, Lichfield Cathedral and Tamworth Castle.
After four years in the Potteries, the schemer signed for Stockport and then Bradford, before returning to Cumbria in June 2007.
Vale hope Adams' record of having three times won promotion, twice from the Football League's lowest tier, will rub off in the Potteries.
Education secretary Michael Gove told MPs he'd been invited by a Labour MP to visit the Potteries in Staffordshire but "welshed on the deal".
The project, called the Potteries Tile Trail, is being carried out with the Tiles and Architectural Ceramic Society and is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
He left Stoke after just five months in charge, angering fans in the Potteries, and with little additional experience gained of managing in the upper echelons.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Birmingham City Council jointly own the 3, 500 artefacts and have permanent displays at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Born in England's pottery center, Staffordshire, and trained as a ceramic painter and gilder in the renowned Copeland (formerly Spode) potteries of Stoke-on-Trent, Lycett (1833-1910) emigrated to New York in 1861.
The aim is to showcase crafts and industries from across the region and feature the chain makers of the Black Country, the potteries in Stoke-on-Trent, computer gaming in Leamington Spa, glove making in Worcester and glass making in Stourbridge.
"I was incredibly proud that this piece of the Potteries exists in the middle of one of the most amazing cities in the world, but I suspect there are a lot of people in Stoke who don't know about it, " he said.
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