Comments on: The Humble and Excellent Brown Betty http://englishtea.us/2009/05/26/the-humble-and-excellent-brown-betty/ The official tea blog of The English Tea Store. Visit us often for information about tea, tea reviews, tea accessories and much more! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Deborah A http://englishtea.us/2009/05/26/the-humble-and-excellent-brown-betty/#comment-852 Deborah A Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:06:31 +0000 http://englishtea.us/?p=1051#comment-852 I had an older Brown Betty with a hole in the center of the lid, a 'no-fall' cut in the top that grabed the lid on the side of the spout, and - most imprssively - a wondrous NO DRIP spout whose main attribute was that the pouring portion faced the table rather than the ceiling. As an amateur potter I know that this had to be a less-produced item as cutting the spout must have taken more effort [as would the hole in the lid and that excellent method of holding the lid on] But as for the spout, this teapot literally sucked the drip back up into the spout. The lid was cracked and the pot eventually broke; then I found a painted version of the same teapot through Ebay a few years ago. [Both were/are of English origin by the way] However the remainder of the Brown Betty pots I've seen for sale do not have any of these attributes. Since your article is so wonderful and you seem to be an expert I wondered if you'd had any acquaintace with the type I've described... thanks! -Deborah Alexander dsalexan@optonline.net I had an older Brown Betty with a hole in the center of the lid, a ‘no-fall’ cut in the top that grabed the lid on the side of the spout, and – most imprssively – a wondrous NO DRIP spout whose main attribute was that the pouring portion faced the table rather than the ceiling.

As an amateur potter I know that this had to be a less-produced item as cutting the spout must have taken more effort [as would the hole in the lid and that excellent method of holding the lid on]

But as for the spout, this teapot literally sucked the drip back up into the spout.

The lid was cracked and the pot eventually broke; then I found a painted version of the same teapot through Ebay a few years ago. [Both were/are of English origin by the way]

However the remainder of the Brown Betty pots I’ve seen for sale do not have any of these attributes.

Since your article is so wonderful and you seem to be an expert I wondered if you’d had any acquaintace with the type I’ve described…

thanks!
-Deborah Alexander
dsalexan@optonline.net

]]> By: Not Merely the Vicar’s Wife’s Teapot --Gongfu Girl http://englishtea.us/2009/05/26/the-humble-and-excellent-brown-betty/#comment-259 Not Merely the Vicar’s Wife’s Teapot --Gongfu Girl Wed, 27 May 2009 18:23:41 +0000 http://englishtea.us/?p=1051#comment-259 [...] This is just the beginning of my post on The English Tea Blog (which has little or no overlap of content with this one): “Despite its humble appearance and role as default teapot in so many English cupboards, the Brown Betty is a much more interesting piece of tea ware than one might assume. The ancestral forms of the Brown Betty came into production and use in England near the close of the seventeenth century, when craftsmen began using the unique red clay found in the Bradell Woods area of Stoke-on-Trent to fashion into teapots.” Read the rest on The Taste of English Tea Blog. [...] [...] This is just the beginning of my post on The English Tea Blog (which has little or no overlap of content with this one): “Despite its humble appearance and role as default teapot in so many English cupboards, the Brown Betty is a much more interesting piece of tea ware than one might assume. The ancestral forms of the Brown Betty came into production and use in England near the close of the seventeenth century, when craftsmen began using the unique red clay found in the Bradell Woods area of Stoke-on-Trent to fashion into teapots.” Read the rest on The Taste of English Tea Blog. [...]

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