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The walking tea set was a postmodern phenomenon. The one that you see on the left here was exhibited on a custom-made table by a Royal College furniture designer.
It was hand-made, thrown and turned and press-moulded in the Lustre Pottery studio in Yorkshire in 1973. At this time the pottery produced 40 cups and 10 tea pots a week. It then went out to casting studios in Stoke-on-Trent, being returned to be decorated and glazed by Roger and Danka and producing about a hundred items a week.
Its mass-production by Carlton Ware occurred shorly after this until the factory closed down in 1986. Its sister factory, Price Kensington, continued to make a few basic items, although on the whole, the quality tended to be poorer.
