Friends Teapot

This treacly-brown coloured teapot can be found on the table in the parlour of Pickard’s Cottage, at the Museum. These Measham Ware teapots were in demand from the mid nineteenth to the early twentieth century and became popular with people who worked and lived on the canals, and, as such became known as ‘bargeware’. We’re not quite sure the route that this teapot took to end up in our cottage on the North York Moors, because there aren’t many canals here!

As with other Measham ware, this teapot is decorated with an applied clay moulded into flowers. Other patterns included flowers, birds, fruit and animals.

A digital certificate of thanks, with an image of your object.