BRITISH TEAPOTS & TEA DRINKING

THEIERES

Introduction and Acknowledgements                                       ix

Abbreviations                                                                        xii

1 The Growth of Tea-Drinking                                                  1

2 The British Tea Ceremony                                                    13

3 Supplying the Tea Equipage

Flying Teapots and the Challenge of China                               28

Inside the Pottery Trade                                                          34

Notes to Chapters 1-3                                                            43

Colour Plates          between pages                            44 and 45

Catalogue

Introduction to the Catalogue                                                  45

4 Early Pottery                                                                        47

Salt-Glazed Stoneware                                                           47

Other Early Stoneware and Earthenware                                 55

Tortoiseshell and Colour-Glazed Earthenware                         62

Creamware                                                                             71

Pearlware                                                                             109

5 Early Porcelain                                                                   120

Chelsea                                                                                120

Bow                                                                                     123

Worcester                                                                            128

Derby                                                                                   140

Liverpool                                                                              144

Other Factories                                                                     147

6 Pottery Goes Classical                                                       154

7 Porcelain Goes Classical                                                    214

Round and Barrel Shape                                                       215

Commode Shape                                                                  220

Oval                                                                                     225

Old Oval                                                                              233

Octagonal and Other Shapes                                                 241

New Oval                                                                             247

Low and Parapet Ovals                                                        253

Oblong and Later Octagonal Shapes                                     257

London Shape                                                                      263

8 The Romantic Teapot                                                         275

Low Round Porcelain                                                           275

Shouldered Round Porcelain                                                 281

High Romantic Porcelain                                                       289

Low Round and Later Pottery                                               303

Select Bibliography                                                               315

Appendix                                                                              325

Index                                                                                    327

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