The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-03
SOME AMERICAN TEAPOTS.
THEIR ORIGIN ~ TO NE LOOKED
FOR ~ TINE ORIENT.
Imported Tenpots In the United states
Atserican Examples OF the Lest Century
Some Curious Modern rorns.

Imported Tenpots In the Waited states
American Examples OF the Last Centurv
Some CurIous Modern Forms.
History does not record the name of the
original inventor of the teapot, but tradition
assigns It's birthplace to China and Japan.
Certain II Is that among the earliest spoutcd
md handled utensils OF clay that we're made
IN England, many were fashioned after ORR.
entail models. The low cylindrical teapots OF
red porcelain" made by the Elers brothers
In StaIortshire toward the latter part OF the
seventeenth century, revealed unmistakably
an Eastern Influence, and this may DO said to
be true, TO a certain extent, Of similar vessels
produced in all parts of Great Britain for a
century a:terwnrd.
We nro accustomed TO think Of the Orient
as the land of fans and teapots, and numcr-
OTIS collections hive been made of Chinese
and Japanese patterns. { least two cxten.
stve collections of the latter are known to 10
owned In this country, one OF which consists
of upward OF six hundred specimens, while the
Other numbers about fourteen hundred de
signs of almost every conceivable form and
character grotesquc. curious, artistic, md
ingenious. We arc told that in Japan particu.
larry teapots abound on every hand, which
can be purchased nj almost any price. from a
few cents up to many dollars.
\ naval officer who recently returned from
China informed me that he was constantly
being imp"rtuned by the natives to buy. one
day II Chinese vendcT came aboard the ship
with n heavy load " these wares ard offered
them to the Americans at S1.5O each. After
he had been tho rounds without success, the
officer, in n spirit of fun, proposed to the mer-
chant to take the lot off his hands for 80.
What was Ills nstonishinent when the oher
was promptly accepted. and lie found himself
the rossessor of half II hundred tea, lots enough
for nil his aruuuintnuCcE, with plenty to snare,
And to this day. 1t IS said. he has tcapots to
give away.
Has any one ever thought OF forming a col
-. - At. al, -. ,a-,Io oro ,,1 uor,h,
of tho attention of any china collector. What
little rcceptacies FOR bre"ln tie social be'er-
arc? And what Is more fascinating than tho
corntry witch wa know ,nnst Ee in eristencny
The American tea services were imported
for a long time before they were manufnc.
turea mere Every one Is ian'i..r win tne
old English china of our g~rnndmothers. which
included tea caddles ana pots OF quaint shapes
anu curious orhaihchla'Ioh perhaps u JACK
h.lo," in slossy - S, o%a W a Snn,'no|t IN p S,ns ann IN
Er'e"' p'eco "a .u ".os"N T." o.uo gu.
pink roses. an example Of lustrod ware resem.
tl,nc b,,r,tshod silver mr. dark blue Sta ford
~
shire pottery with printed designs. mayhap
with American views. Then there were
U.an, iii, porstor Do,f. Drosd., Cror,
rren'''' i"""' re,sNNn' go, $50 .n
Derby. Spodc. Chelsea. and Bristol pieces, but
for long time not Il single Iiece of native
.s .xoor. 4, ui,ht VA tho cam
american ""Tt' eAcept ~ "'s"' w ."o '.h
monest e~nrthenware, no record OF which has
been preserved,
Val, L. ,ha ,oe. con,rrv ton hs,,, 70 h.
Furry Ill TIC 'aat 'eh'u's 'e" 'es"u W "
used to n considerable extent. and toward the
end OF the century ten drinking had become
-, ". ,,,iI ,ho, 1o 49, no,+,ra s..u,
boneF"i' +No' UNI INCL w ~ po''e' w"
To have turned a thought to the manufacture
of vessels for Use in connection with the
Chimes. shrub. In 1863 "Tortoise.Shell' and
Green Colour" trapots were made IN Boston,
es set forth in n neyyspaner adyertIseuyent OF
fba am I'm, Who "a IDENTITY one OF these nj
Tho present tiInry Doubtless some OF them
survIte and ARD now posinp as early English
pradurti"ns with tho Whfeldon ware which
has bccn fouDd throughout The New England
states.
T,nnots may also have been produced at tho
Phfiadrlpain china works about IT72. and
probably we're, but no example have yet been
bronrht 70 ljrht, soon after the opening OF
Ills cent nv. however, several firms in PLiia-
del, hIa we're maxim. them. In imitation of the