Hospital-i-tea Blogathon:Tea Pots
May 19, 2008 by Marye Audet
Filed under Beautiful Things, Challenges & Round-ups, memories
This week is all about sharing about teapots. Do you have one? two? or three? maybe more? Is it for display only or do you use it for tea? What is the tea server you use most? Your favorite teapot (or is it something like a quart jar?). Tell your teapot story, give it’s history, and tell what it means to you. You can share more than once if you’d like. Antique, new, Asian, English, or something in between — we’d love to know!
So the blogothon goes on. I am loving these posts! You can find more teapots at Gracious Hospitality.
There are so many blogs that I have become aware of that it is competing with my food blog addiction! Seeing other people’s images, and reading thier thoughts about tea has been inspiring. Having those very talented bloggers come and comment here has been humbling…
I will need several days to go through my tea pots. I thought I would start with the one I find most interesting and most mysterious.
I know nothing about it other than my mom picked it up in a antique store in Bucks County Pa. in 1966. We lived there at the time. The tea pot is pewter, and has an H inscribed in the back
It is very finely detailed with a band of flowers around the rim…and stipes on the tip of the spout. The knob at the top is a bit like a shell.
There are two pegs on either side that poke out and the lid is hinged. I think it is beautiful! I have tried to find something about it but it has no marks and I am not familiar with pewter antiques so much. I think it must be Victorian, and I am guess 1880s because of the monogram..but still..I don’t know.
Anyone have any ideas?
Images:MaryeAudet
That teapot looks like a real antique treasure. I know nothing about antiques, but I’m guessing it’s very old and oh so beautiful. Don’t you wonder about who owned it and the story behind it? Maybe there is some way to research it. The ornate details are awesome.
The detail on your teapot is extraordinary. It is a wonderful piece.
Millie
What a pretty tea pot. It’s so unusual. It’s absolutely stunning.
Your teapot has such outstanding design. There is so much attention to detail on the handle, spout, lid, base, and body of the teapot. Perhaps one of the historical museums which deal with household and decorative objects might give you some direction for researching your piece. Thank your for sharing this unique item.
Bonita- I like to think it was a wedding present to a Victorian bride.
Millie- it is beautiful, isn’t it? thanks for stopping by
Carol- thank you!
Carrie- that is a fantastic idea I will try that!
Your teapot is great. I don’t know anything about it, but it has a lot of character. And by the way, the pie tier table in the background. I like that too!
Ceekay- the pie tier? Salvation Army…$14.99 2 years ago. My favorite antique store!
The flowers are interesting, almost like a flannel flower. I have a vase, I’ll be curious now to have a look at it and see if there is any similarity.
Oye! That is one beautiful work of art. I love pewter and this is a great buy! I can’t help you with any great info except to say don’t let it go :0)
Linda-please let me know! I am interested to see if there is.
ellen- NEVER! LOL! It is fabulous, isn’t it?
Your teapot is exquisite and so very beautiful! I love all the ornate details and the history (of your mother finding it an purchasing it years ago). I can’t help you with ‘more’ but I do love it!
I’m so glad that our blog-a-thon has helped you expand your blogging horizons. I too am addicted to food blogs and am an avid collector of recipes! Recipes are somewhat difficult to blog about though, so I do recipe stuff in my ‘other world’. LOL!
Thanks for posting!
LaTeaDah
LaTeaDah..thanks for stopping by. I have been enjoying this..I am very involved in my food blog so I am actually a bit better at the recipe end than the tea/coffee end of it..LOL!
I took a picture like I promised! Even embellished it a bit. And I plugged you, too.
http://juliefletcher.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-teapot.html
Oh and I thought I’d share this since the Blog-a-thon is about teapots.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=111655&in_page_id=2
Cool Julie..Thanks!
Hi Marye,
Very interesting! It looks to me like it might be a tilting tea kettle (hot water kettle). Sometimes in a more elaborate silver teaset, you would have a teapot, a coffeepot, and a tilting tea kettle where it rests of a structure that would allow the tilting. More often than not, it would also have a small Sterno thingie to keep the water warm. You had mentioned the pegs on the side… that to me provide strong “evidence” that it might be a tilting tea kettle.
But then again, I could be TOTALLY wrong! 
WOW! Thanks! I wondered about that myself. What made it weird to me that it was pewter!
That teapot is so unique and wonderful! It looks like it’s fairly large. What a conversation piece!
Yes it is! I usually keep it on my dining room mantle.
Both pots are spectacular but I especially love the inscribed pot…Kathy@ Mimi’s Garden
Hi Marye,
It is very interesting to me too that this elaborate kettle is made of pewter instead of silver. But in the old old days, pewter was very widely used as an everyday kind of affair. So, maybe this set was used in an everyday type setting.
However, I know the Germans and Italians have had longstanding histories working with pewter as well. And pewter nowadays is definitely not “the poor man’s silver” anymore – some can be just as expensive as silver…
yep! I like it better really, it is warmer and just cozier I suppose.
KAthy- it is all one pot.
Ivory Spring gave you the same answer I was going to. I have seen a similar pot on a little matching stand that you tilted to pour. There is an indention where you put a warming can or even a tea light these days. I have one that is glass and ornate silver. The detail on your is exquisite! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Miss Sandy! I have never seen another like it
I don’t know anything about pewter teapots, but it is the most beautiful teapot I’ve ever seen. And your photography is exquisite! Thanks for the treat!
Thank you Karen..I have been working on my photography!