The BROWN BETTY teapot has quite a history for such a diminutive vessel. Its origins date back to the end of the 17th century and the birth of the British ceramic teapot. The original unglazed ...

Q. This is a photo of a small round earthenware teapot that was my grandmother's. It stands about 5 inches tall and holds 1 3/4 cups. It is decorated with a shiny brown glaze over red-brown clay ...

The origins of the Brown Betty teapot are a bit of a mystery. The designer has never been identified: what we do know is that in the late 1600s Dutch brothers David and John Philip Elers began ...

The Brown Betty teapot has been in continuous production since the Industrial Revolution. Through successive minor improvements, mostly anonymous, the simple ceramic form has been incrementally ...