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Freefalling teapot
This pot appears to be floating in mid-air or even slowly falling from the sky. The flowing liquid from the spout enhances the sense of motion. I wondered if those working in the nearby office building were not heavy tea drinkers; thus, t...
Red Teapots
Glazes within the copper tone hues are the most difficult to predict and manage in pottery. Not only does it require a particular schedule of firing in the kiln, it mandates monitoring throughout the bake. We all too often take for grante...
Hand blown teapots
These hand blown glass teapots are made by Elaine Hyde. Glass is made of silica sand and for color metallic oxides are added. First the base is heated and blown which is the consistency ofRead More......
Mirrored pot of tea
I have always thought a teapot a work of art. This includes an image that is painted on the vessel. And, now that I have seen Jo St. Baker’s canvases, I think a painting on a teapot within a painting is truly a work of art. Wi...
Spot of tea
Who hasn’t heard the saying ‘a spot of tea’? Apparently very few, at least that is in the UK and the US. According to the World Wide Words Organization Americans use the phrase as often, if not more over the last few dec...
Surprising teapots
Joy Imai has been a potter for 35 years. After many years of raku firing pieces, she has returned to her original study of soda firing. This now makes the outcome of her teapots and mugs a surprise even to her. I spray a solution of sodium bica...
