Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

‘Southern Teahouse’ – Kitagawa Utamaro

 

Annual teapots exhibition

 

Including the exotic and the refined with glimpses of the simply zany, a collection of teapot interpretations by over 60 artists is now showing at the 11th annual Teapot Invitational at the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery in Pittsburgh. This annual show is running till June 10th. Some of the teapots are utilitarian, others purely decorative, while some are so cleverly conceived that if you are currently a ‘teatotaller’, you might be compelled to take up the tea drinking habit just to relish the pleasure of using such innovative tea ware.

Morgans Gallery

5833 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
(412) 441-5200

 

 

‘ A Bear in the Hand’ teapot  —Krista Grecco

 

 

‘A drop of tea’ — hand carved silver pendant — Keith Belles

 

 

 

Amy Short— ‘Tea Beast’ 

 

 

Andrew Richmond, ‘Bath Time’ 

 

 

Anthony Scheffler – ‘Black Heart Teapot’

Ebonized Purple Heart, bleached Maple

 

 

 

Art Nouveau sterling silver tea pot

 

 

‘Tea With Edna’  – Charissa Brock

Bamboo, fused glass, paper, waxed linen thread

 

 

‘Chicken Head Teapot’ – Sara Swink

 

 

Kong Fu tea master pouring a cuppa at the Carlton Ritz

 

 

Derek Decker Teapot

 

 

Natasha Dikareva – ‘Call For Adventure’

 

 

 

Eben Horton, – ‘Tempest in a Teapot’  blown glass

 

 

Tea time charm – Vintage postcard

 

 

Eileen Doughty— ‘Mountain Tea’

• Machine & hand stitched cotton fabrics, thread sculpture trees

 

Ellen Silberlicht – ‘Ooolong Enchantment’

Raku, felted fiber, glass beads

 

 

 

Julia Feld – ‘Flower Basket’  teapot

 

 

 ‘Last Defense’ teapot – Julia Feld

 

 

‘Felted Delft Teapot’ — Meryl Ruth

 

 

‘Forever’ — Kelly O’Dell – blown glass teapot

 

 

 

Central restaurant tea urn – Hotel Oakland, California

 

 

 

‘Four Cat Teapot’ – Andree Richmond

 

 

 

Contemporary tea room, wabi sabied table – Design by Lai Weicheng

Photo: Jiang Guozeng

 

 

 

Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch – ‘Octahemioctahedron Teapot’

Radiator cover folded with modular origami techniques

 

 

Jeffrey Lloyd Dever— ‘Morning Jester’

Polymer clay, wire 17.25-inches

 

 

Jennifer Caldwell – ‘Love me’

Cast and flameworked glass

 

 

 

Gerit Grimm — ‘Tea Guy’

12inch height

 

 

Jennifer Umphress – glass Octopus Teapot

 

 

Jennifer Umphress – Uni teapot with blue spikes

 

 

 

Joey Chiarello – ‘Generosity’

slab built by hand, stoneware fred cone 6 electric,

 

 

 

Chinese street vendor Tea Maestro

 

 

 

Julia Feld – ‘The Bird’  teapot

Clay, hand built, carved, hand painted with underglazes, low fire

 

 

Kay Khan, – Chrysanthemum Teapot

Quilted, stitched, embroidered, & constructed silk

 

 

Kirsten Stingle – ‘Procession of the Muse’

 

 

Kirsten Stingle –  ‘Steeped in Revolution’ ceramic teapot

 

 

Lindsay Grigsby – ‘Spheres Teapot’

 

‘Lucidtea’ — Mark Leputa

 

 

Madeline Kaczmarczyk beaded teapots

 

 

Madeline Kaczmarczyk – ‘Lotus directions’

Hand built slab formed clay, glazed and fred with gold lusters. Post fring encrusting with glass beads

 

 

Marilyn Andrews – ‘Passion n Doubt’ – figural teapot n cup

 

 

‘ Need a lift’ – Matthew Naftzger

Titanium, copper, sterling silver, vitreous enamel,

 

 

Natasha Dikareva – ‘Swan Teapot’

stoneware, stains, glazes, china paint, hand built

 

 

‘Carnival Tea’ – Pamela MacGregor

 

 

 

Natasha Dikareva – ‘On The Waves Of Her Memory’

 

 

Pamela MacGregor – ‘Kenya Revisited’

 

 

Robert Mickelsen –  ‘I’ve Got My Eye On You’

Flame worked borosilicate glass.

 

 

 

‘Tea Party’ – Samovar in Soviet Uzbekistan

(—you have to admire the elevated status given to the teapot)

photo by Maxine Penson

 

 

 

‘Mad Hatter teapot’ – Mickelsen Studios

Lampworked borosilicate glass, blown, sculpted, graal technique, sandblasted, assembled.

 

 

 

Sheryl Zacharia – ‘Big Head in the Clouds’ 

 

 

 

Sheryl Zacharia – ‘Green Tea’ 

 

 

Susan Parrish – ‘Sarah Jane Serves Afternoon Tea’

 

 

 

Susan Parrish – ‘Hot Tea’

 

 

 

Sara Swink – ‘My Donkey Teapot’

 

 

 

 ‘Tall Fish Teapot’ — Tom Hubert

22 inches height

 

 

Tea service Moroccan

 

 

Tom Hubert -arabesque  ‘Carved Figure Teapot’

 

 

 

Tom Hubert – Tall black and white ‘Carved Teapot’ – porcelain with wood base

 

 

 

Tom Hubert – ‘Orange Shape’ teapot

 

 

 

Tom Hubert ‘Curly Handle Teapot’

 

 

 

‘Tom Hubert – ‘Mahogany Leg Teapot’

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‘Teatime Tales’ and silk – Charles Joseph Frédéric Soulacroix

Montpellier

 

 

Multi textural teapot – Gail Markiewicz (non exhibtion)

 

 

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