Thrown and turned tea pot with overhead handle

1985

Largely experimental, these teapots were intended as an exploration of the boundaries for the development of design philosophies using simple and inventive shape and surface from the elements of thrown clay and direct pattern.

In assembling thrown and turned elements to investigate some of the design qualities found in the curious admixture of the Victorian designer Christopher Dresser and the spiritual economy of the Japanese Zen as expressed throgh the English Craft Movement.

The pot is a combination of six elements.

1. The body is made out of two bowls joined rim to rim,2. The handle is a turned ring of clay,3. The base a separate piece.

Importantly light in weight. The decoration is brushed underglaze over a latex resist, the glaze has a wax resist to reveal the matt surface underneath.

28cm. high

Roger Michell private collection.