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The teapot has been featured in the American children's song from 1939, "I'm a Little Teapot". In Korea, the teapot is commonly used as a serving container for various types of wines. Part of the constellation of Sagittarius contains an asterism (or a star pattern not officially recognized as a constellation) that famously resembles a teapot.
Vintage Revere Ware, manufactured before 1968 and carrying the prized "Process Patent" maker's mark on the thick copper bottom, is finding its way back into modern kitchens. (Photo courtesy of Blane van Pletzen-Rands) Revere Ware was a line of consumer and commercial kitchen wares introduced in 1939 by the Revere Copper and Brass Corp.
Their signature product was artisan-crafted teapots. Starting in 1966, the Cultural Revolution [2] led Factory No. 1 to begin to produce utilitarian pots in a style known as shui ping hu in vast numbers. Instead of having the name of the craftsman who made the pot on the bottom, these pots had characters that represented Yixing. [3]
An umakaki is a trimming harp used to level flat, wide surfaces, such as the bottom of a shallow dish or plate. Kushi are not strictly throwing tools; these combs are used to score a minimum of two decorative parallel lines on pot surfaces. The largest combs have about 20 teeth. A take bon bon is also not a throwing tool, but a Japanese slip ...
"Brown Betty" teapot made by Joseph Bourne & Son Ltd "Brown Betty" teapots made by James Sadler and Sons Ltd. A Brown Betty is a type of teapot, round and with a manganese brown glaze known as Rockingham glaze. [1] [2] The original teapots came from a red clay that was discovered in the Stoke-on-Trent area of Britain, in 1695. This clay ...
Five Yixing clay teapots showing a variety of styles from formal to whimsical. Yixing clay (simplified Chinese: 宜兴泥; traditional Chinese: 宜興泥; pinyin: Yíxīng ní; Wade–Giles: I-Hsing ni) is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China, used in Chinese pottery since the Song dynasty (960–1279) when Yixing clay was first mined around China's ...
Today, Delfts Blauw (Delft Blue) is the brand name hand painted on the bottom of ceramic pieces identifying them as authentic and collectible. Although most Delft Blue borrows from the tin-glaze tradition, it is nearly all decorated in underglaze blue on a white clay body and very little uses tin glaze, a more expensive product.
The first Yixing clay teapots were made in the 16th century by monks from the Jinsha Temple. Their use was popularized by Kung Ch'un, who became a servant in the house of Yixing tea master Wu Lun (1440-1522). [2] The new teapots soon became popular with the scholarly class, and the fame of Yixing teapots began to spread.