Sadler Brown Betty Teapot
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Brown Betty is a type of teapot, round and with a manganese brown glaze
known as Rockingham glaze.
The original teapots came from a red clay that was discovered in Stoke-On-Trent, in 1695. This special clay seemed to retain heat
better and so found use as the material for the teapot as early as the
seventeenth century. These early pots were tall and shaped more like
coffee pots. In the nineteenth century the pots began to take on the
more rounded shape of the modern Brown Betty. The Rockingham Glaze was
brushed on the pot and allowed to run down the sides, creating a streaky
finish as it was fired.
In the Victorian era,
when tea was at its peak of popularity, tea brewed in the Brown Betty
was considered excellent. This was attributed to the design of the pot
which allowed the tea leaves more freedom to swirl around as the water
was poured into the pot, releasing more flavour with less bitterness.
£19.99 + 5.50pp
