Ceramic Tea Pots

The first known manmade ceramics were simple vessels of clay, hardened in fires built by our early ancestors thousands of years before the ceramic teapots we know and love came into being. Now, ceramics can be found in art, building products and even semiconductors. The oldest antique tea pot in the world is thought to be one from a china tea set, dated back to 1513, from Gongchun where teapots and china tea sets have been central to culture and life for thousands of years. This antique tea pot is on display in the Flagstaff House Museum of Teaware in Hong Kong.

Ceramic teapots became widely produced in England from the 18th century, when a method of producing porcelain in the Chinese style was invented. 5 towns, located in an area of North Staffordshire, more commonly known as ‘The Potteries’ then evolved as the centre point for the industry. By the early 20th Century, hundreds of thousands of china and ceramic teapots were produced by over 400 different companies, brands like Wedgwood and royal Doulton among them. One particular town, Longton, which was home to iconic and collected teaware brands such as Shelley, Paragon and Grafton, is now home to the Katy Potts “Utterly English Teaware” range of tea accessories.

The Katy Potts “Utterly English Teaware” range of tea accessories can be found in the historic Liberty department store on Regent Street in London’s fashionable West End, a fitting surrounding for these exquisite examples of an age-old craft. All of the teapots in the range are incredibly work intensive, because the decoration cannot be added all in one go and must be built up slowly, often they have to return to the kiln up to 4 times, therefore taking over 40 hours of firing.

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