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<h1>Teapots</h1>
<p>The teapot part of the collection started somewhat accidentally, when I had to buy a teapot in order to
get a cow creamer that I wanted. Then – just like with the silver and Staffordshire cow creamers – when we moved
to England for a couple years, things changed. I think the one that really got me hooked on cow
teapots was Andy Titcomb’s ‘Bull in a China Shop’ (see below…), which we found in a lovely tea shop on Neal
Street, just north of Covent Gardens. But then, if it hadn’t been one of his, it probably would have been
one of the others. So now there are over two hundred twenty five, most here, some shown in other theme sections. </p>
<p><div align="center"> As a reminder, click on any thumbnail for a larger picture.</p>
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<a href="teapots/carolsteapots.JPG"><img src="teapots/carolsteapotsr.jpg" alt="2 Carol Myers cow teapots"
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<p>These two are my favorites. We bought both in Virginia, one directly from the artisan at a
craft fair in Gaithersburg in 1995, the other in a gift shop in the summer of 2007. They are
hand crafted by Carol E. Myers of Chincoteague Island, Va. She makes a number of other animal
teapots as well. Her shop was closed when we visited the island for a birding trip in 2015, so I’m
very glad I bought these while she was still working.</p>
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<div align="center"><a href="teapots/k26b.jpg"><img src="teapots/k26br.jpg" width="150" height="190" alt="Carol Myers cow teapot"></a></div>
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<p>Here’s a third from Carol Meyers, that I got via eBay (much cheaper than in the store or at the
fair!). I believe it is an early version since it lacks some of the ‘frills’ of the others and seems
to have a somewhat cruder head.</p>
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<a href="teapots/longhornnangus.jpg"><img src="teapots/longhornnangusr.jpg" width="215" height="150" HSPACE="5" alt="Christy Crews Dunn longhorn and Angus cow teapots"></a>
<a href="teapots/bnwbrown.jpg"><img src="teapots/bwbrownr.jpg" width="222" height="150" alt="Christy Crews Dunn Jersey and Holstein cow teapots"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>Here are four more very beautiful and well-crafted teapots from another Virginia Artisan, Christy
Crews Dunn of The Sylvan Studios, Keysville (<a href="http://ccdunn.starlogic.com/">http://ccdunn.startlogic.com</a>).
A friend pointed me to the marvelous hand-thrown and carved ‘effigy’ animal pots on her web site, and
unsurprisingly I felt compelled to add her work to my collection. So…I contacted her and commissioned
these four teapots – a Texas Longhorn, an Angus bull, and the Jersey and Holstein – as well as two
creamers. These pots are quite large and heavy, so my wife and I elected to drive to Keysville to
pick them up after our stay in Chincoteague, and we had a delightful time meeting Christy, learning a
bit more about her history and technique, and touring her studio. </p></blockquote>
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<a href="teapots/k251a.jpg"><img src="teapots/k251ar.jpg" width="183" height="150" HSPACE="5" alt="Christy Crews Dunn calf"></a>
<a href="teapots/k251b.jpg"><img src="teapots/k251br.jpg" width="110" height="150" alt="Christy Crews Dunn calf front"></a></div>
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<p>A number of years after commissioning the above teapots, I went camping in western Virginia, and stopped by
the Appalachian Arts and Crafts Cebnter in Clifton Forge. Much to my surprise and pleasure, there was this very cute
calf which I immediately recogniszed as another by Christy Crews Dunn. The chap behind the cvash register said t
hat she had moved to Texas, so I guess I won't fiond any more by her on this part of the country.</p></blockquote>
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<a href="teapots/k259x.JPG"><img src="teapots/k259xr.jpg" width="135" height="150" alt="Whuite faced tea kettle"></a></div></td>
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<p>Also by an Amnerican artisan - in this case an unknown one likely from South Carolina where the selled bought it
around the nmillenium at a craft fair - is this lovely white faced tea kettle. It;s not only unsigned but also unglazed, so I doubt
it was intended for real use. </p>
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<a href="teapots/k209.JPG"><img src="teapots/k209r.jpg" width="200" height="143" alt="Japanese cow teapot by Kameoka Katushi"></a></td>
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<p>This lovely small Japanese red clay teapot was hand-crafted by the noted craftsman Kameoka Katushi,
a 4th generation potter of the “Motozo Kiln” in Tokoname, Japan. He is noted for his bonsai pots as
well as his fanciful and beautifully crafted teapots. Wikipedia tells us that Tokoname was the
location of one of the ‘Six Ancient Kilns’ of Japan, and that pottery from the town dates back to
the 12c. Ceramics production and commercial fishing are major components of the local economy. </p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/2.jpg"><img src="teapots/2r.jpg" width="200" height="199" alt="Folk art caricature cow teapot"></a></div>
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<p>This folk-art caricature is also hand-made, but from where and by whom I have no idea. It came via
eBay, and bears the mark “DN86” on the left front leg. </p>
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Here’s another intriguing one – hand made by the seller, Dottie Dracos of Oregon. I’ve often
wondered why more potters didn’t make cow teaots – this may be part of the answer.</p>
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<td><a href="places/aussie.JPG"><img src="places/aussier.jpg" alt="2 homemade Aussie cow teapots" width="200" height="142"></a></td>
<td valign="middle"> I have purchased quite a number of cow creamers and
pitchers both in Australia and from eBay.au, but these two little handmade teapots, from Ron and Lorrie Holmes-Brown of Queensland, are the only ones I know of that were definitely made there. </td>
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<a href="teapots/rn1.jpg"><img src="teapots/rn1r.jpg" width="200" height="155" hspace="5" alt="Russian caricature cow teapot, flat top"></a>
<a href="teapots/rn2.jpg"><img src="teapots/rn2r.jpg" width="200" height="155" alt="Russian caricature cow teapot, red nose"></a></div>
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<p>These two caricatures are Russian – they came to me from Vologda, but the seller said that they were
made by a ‘master’ who came to Vologoda from Moscow, and who has a small workshop. Wikipedia tells us that
"Vologda (Russian: Вологoда) is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda
Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. The city serves as
a major transport hub of the Northwest of Russia. The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has
classified Vologda as an historic city, one of forty-one in Russia and one of only three in Vologda Oblast.
224 buildings in Vologda have been officially recognized as cultural heritage monuments."</p></blockquote>
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<a href="teapots/andysbulls2.jpg"><img src="teapots/andysbulls2r.jpg"
alt="Andy Titcomb bull in a china shop cow teapots" width="220" height="160"></a>
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<blockquote>
<p>Next come a number of "production' teapots, but special because of their famous makers and available only in somewhat
limited numbers. We start with the infamous bull in the china shop, by Andy Titcomb who makes limited-run teapots and
salt and pepper shakers
at his studio in North Cornwall. They are dated 1994 and we bought the black and white one the
year after that while in London. As noted elsewhere, this is the one that started the teapot part
of the collection. The brown one is a bit more rare - at least the only one I've ever seen - and i
t came along quite a bit later. Andy's work is quite lovely and unique, and you can check it out
on his web site at <a href="http://www.andytitcomb.com/">www.andytitcomb.com</a></p></blockquote>
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<a href="teapots/k27a1.jpg"><img src="teapots/k27a1r.jpg" width="212" height="194" alt="Brown Titcomb bull teapot, left"></a>
<a href="teapots/k27a2.jpg"><img src="teapots/k27a2r.jpg" width="197" height="194" hspace="5" alt="Brown Titcomb bull teapot, right"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>Here's an enlarged view of the brown version of the bull in a china shop, showing
both sides of this massive and beautiful teapot.</p></blockquote>
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<td colspan="2" scope="col"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/titcombteapot2.jpg"><img src="teapots/titcombteapot2r.jpg"
alt="Andy Titcomb cow with milk bottle teapot" width="200" height="155" ></a>
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<blockquote>
<p>This is another lovely cow teapot by by Andy Titcomb, a well fed holstein with milk and cheese
on its lid and dated 2006. </a></p></blockquote>
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<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/milka.JPG"><img src="teapots/milkar.jpg" width="200" height="154" alt="Paul Cardew Milka cow teapot"></a></td>
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<p>This large (8”x12”) and beautiful cow teapot was an early design of Paul Cardew’s, dating from the
1980’s when he was trading as South West Ceramics. He is probably better known among cow teapot
aficiandos for his bottles with a cow head sticking out, shown with some more information about him
a few sections down. I acquired this lovely “Milka” cow (via eBay) from Sue Blayze of Tea Pot Island. I believe she holds the world record for teapot
collections – she has some 6400 of which 1600 or so are displayed and discussed on her marvelous
website, <a href="http://www.teapotisland.com" target="_blank">www.teapotisland.com</a>. If you are
at all interested in teapots, this is a must-visit site. She noted that this one is ‘rare’ – I had
earlier bought one that broke in shipment (lousy packaging) from a chap who said there were only 250
made – but that it was also made in brown and black. I suppose this one could go in “the
“Advertising” section since it’s a lovely rendition of the Milka purple cow and proudly bears the
brand name. For those of you that don’t know Milka, well, you’re missing something very tasty.</p></td>
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<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/k195as.JPG"><img src="teapots/k195asr.jpg" width="200" height="140" alt="Black version of Cardew Milka cow teapot"></a></td>
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<p>Here is the black and white version of the ‘Milka’ cow – why two of them? Well, just like Milka the
first one I bought arrived broken, although in this case I was able to decently patch it up. But
when another one came up on offer a year or so later, I was able to work with the seller to arrange
safe, if expensive, shipping.</p>
<p align="left"> </p>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/m25a.JPG"><img src="teapots/M25ar.JPG" width="165" height="200" hspace="5" alt="Cardew Design 2000 cow bottle teapot"></a>
<a href="teapots/m25abase.JPG"><img src="teapots/m25abaser.JPG" width="200" height="171" alt="Cardew signature on cow teapot prototype"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>This is the more widely known and available Paul Cardew teapot. The one in front, accompanied by a
shot of its base, is the prototype for the “Cardew Design 2000” (as it says in raised letters on the
gold lid) teapot and similar items. It has pretty blue eyes and light brown horns, which are missing
in the commercial versions that followed. The seller says that his boss acquired this one at a
silent auction in 2000 at a Harmony Kingdom Convention in Lake Geneva, WI. It was signed by Paul
Cardew at that event. </p></blockquote>
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<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/cardewset.JPG"><img src="teapots/cardewsetr.jpg" width="200"
height="148" alt="Cardew Design 2000 Cow teapot, creamer & sugar"></a></td>
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<p>Here’s the resulting “Cardew Designs 2000” cow tea set including the sugar bowl and creamer. From
the Cardew Design North America Inc (established in 1999 to increase business in the US and Canada)
website we learn that Paul Cardew attended art school at Loughborough University, then taught art
part time at Exeter University. He broke into commercial work with successful commissions for ceramic
brooches for Harrods and piggy banks for the National Westminster Bank, then launched his teapot
designs in 1975 at the Birmingham spring fair. His initial company,
Sunshine Ceramics (we learn from Andy Titcomb’s website that Sunshine Ceramics was started by Paul
along with his wife Karen, and Hillary Watters and her partner David Symonds, and that Andy joined
them in 1978 and left in 1983), transitioned into Cardew Design in 1991, and they entered North
American markets in 92. Cardew has designed for a number of well known brands including Portmerion
and Royal Dalton, but most famously for Disney for which he did over a hundred designs. The North
America company acquired the international rights to the Cardew name and trademarks in 2008,
and continues to produce new designs.</p>
</td>
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<tr><div align="center"><br>
<td> <a href="teapots/m25bw.JPG"><img src="teapots/m25bwrr.jpg" width="140" height="150" alt="orange cardew 2000"></a></div></td>
<td>
<p>Almost a quarter century after Cardew desighned these, I came across this orange and yellow version being sold in the UK.
Quite a surprise, It's missing ts klid, but I still just had to add it to the collection. NMow I mkust wonder if there are
others, or if this was a one-shot trial.</p></td>
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<td> <a href="teapots/m1m16.jpg"><img src="teapots/m1m16r.jpg" width="212" height="145" alt="two B&W cow hreads out of bottles"></a></td>
<td>
<p> Apparently the Cardew teapots were sufficiently popular that they inspired knock-offs, or at least
someone else had the same idea. The smaller one simply says "Milk Bottle" but the larger one has "With Milk
Please" on one side, and "SWC Teapot Co." on the other, not to mention "made in China".</p></td>
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<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/2151.jpg"><img src="teapots/2151r.jpg" width="200"
height="140" alt="Three milk bottles with cow heads"> </div>
<blockquote>
<p>Milk bottles with cow heads sticking out of them indeed do seem to have been produced by quite a number of
companies. I don't know if this is just a natural instinct, or if they were inspired by Paul Cardew,
or vice versa. At any rate, the ones with the white head and the blue caricature both just say Milk
Jug, while the one on the right proclaims it's for Jersey Full Milk Cream.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/groth1.JPG"><img src="teapots/groth1r.JPG" width="210" height="170" hspace="5" alt="John Groth cow teapot, side"></a>
<a href="teapots/groth2.JPG"><img src="teapots/groth2r.jpg" width="110" height="170" alt="John Groth cow teapot, front"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>This ‘beauty’ is signed and marked for John Groth, ’87. It comes up on occasion on eBay, usually with a
high reserve (mine didn’t, thankfully; one of my few ‘good deals’). He has a web site – johngrothglass.com
– that features fused glass and clay, for which he holds a patent. That site doesn’t give much of his
history, but elsewhere I’ve found that he started working in ceramics in 1970, developed a
thermal-shock-resistant version of porcelain in 1985, and started fusing glass and clay in 1986. His web
site does show a number of teapots (but not this one) and other ceramic items, but all are dated 1997 or
earlier so I assume he now focuses on his fused glass pieces.
</p></blockquote>
</td>
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<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/k216.jpg"><img src="teapots/k216r.jpg" width="200" height="161" alt="Tom Hatton cow teapot and cup"></a></td>
<td scope="col">Here is magnificent teapot by another well known ceramics artist, Tom
Hatton. There are three of his creamers in the ‘Favorite Brands’ page – and here
is a matching teapot and cup, dated 1992. The story about him on his web page,
www.tomhattonceramics.com, notes that his commercial work began with the American
Craft Council in 1983, and that in 1995 he switched to doing more one-of-a-kind pieces.
This teapot and cup thus came from his more ‘commercial’ period. Be that as it may, he
crafts really fun cows.</td>
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<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/hattons.JPG"><img src="teapots/hattonsr.jpg" alt="1" width="200" height="186" alt="Tom Hatton cow teapot, sugar and creamer"></a></td>
<td scope="col">Here’s the same teapot again, this time with a matching (at least also from 1992) sugar and
creamer. </td>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k248w.jpg"><img src="teapots/k248wr.jpg" width="244" height="180" alt="Chinese purple clay bull teapot set"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>This is a very interesting Chinese purple clay tea set. The golden horned bull is the teapot - almost (close enough).
Actually you put the tea in the strainer that sits on his houlders, pour in hot water, and the tea drains down through a second
strainer into his head and out his mouth into the waiting little pitcher. Then you pour it from that into the 8 little cups.
It came from Shenzhen, China. At $190 not cheap, but sufficiently unique and clever, not to mention nice, that I couln;t resist. </p></blockquote></td>
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<tr>
<td><a href="pitcher/37.jpg"><img src="pitcher/37r.jpg" width="200" height="247" alt="Clay Art's Cow Under the Moon pitcher"></a></td>
<td>
<p align="left">This is a very cute and original interpretation by CLAY ART of San Francisco,
copyrighted 1993, logically entitled "Cow Under the Moon", and made in China. I have a number of pieces of from
them, but the only information I could glean from the web came
from a 1997 About.com article <a href="http://collectibles.about.com/library/articles/aa061797.htm">http://collectibles.about.com/library/articles/aa061797.htm</a>
that notes: “In 1979 Michael Zanfagna and Jenny McClain were teaching at Mission High School in San
Francisco, when they decided to build a business of affordable art.” They made salt and pepper
shakers, cookie jars, and similar items…obviously including the occasional amusing cow. Are they
still in business?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k202a.JPG"><img src="teapots/k202ar.jpg" width="200" height="160" hspace="5" alt="Gzhel cow teapot, side"></a>
<a href="teapots/k202b.JPG"><img src="teapots/k202br.jpg" width="200" height="160" alt="Gzhel cow teapot. front"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>This is one of my my favorites of the ‘mass produced’ teapots, strange as it may be. I’ve been looking for one by
this maker for a very long time. It’s Gzhel, a high quality Russian ceramic which takes its name from the
village and surrounding area of Gzhel southeast of Moscow, that has been producing distinctive blue and
white pottery since 1802 (there’s a nice little article about it on Wikipedia, as well as several other
descriptions on various web sites). My wife and I have several lovely pieces of Gzhel that we purchased
during our visits to Russia, but I had never seen a cow (though I looked long and hard) until this one
turned up on eBay. The seller notes that she bought it from the Gzhel factory store in Vladivostok while
she was at the US consulate there between 2000 and 2002. I am absolutely delighted to add it to my
collection.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k242b.jpg"><img src="teapots/k242br.jpg" width=156" height="150" alt="Gzhel cow treapot front"></a>
<a href="teapots/k242a.jpg"><img src="teapots/k242ar.jpg" width=192" height="150" hspace="5" alt="Gzhel cow treapot side"></a>
<a href="teapots/k242c.jpg"><img src="teapots/k242cr.jpg" width=140" height="120" alt="Gzhel cow treapot marks"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p> Some 20 yearS later, Gzhel apparebntly made another cow teapot, this one somewhat more realistic or at least
cuter and with a friendly bird on top. It's considerably smaller, and signed by the painter, along with the Gzhel stamp.
I was very pleased to find it on ebay since travel this year (2020) is stopped due to the covid 19 pandemic.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/k219new.jpg"><img src="teapots/k219newr.jpg" width="178" height="145" alt="Silver and grey cow teapot"></a></div></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This whitish and silver cow bears a slight family resemblance to the first Gzhel teapot, but it’s unmarked. It
could as easily be some sort of mythical beast as a cow, but of course I had to get a close-up look so
couldn’t resist buying it. </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="teapots/k238ab.jpg"><img src="teapots/k238abr.jpg" width="199" height="145" alt="Two Ukrainian cow teapoots"></td>
<td>
<p>Not Russia this time, but the Ukraine – from a small company that calls itself Ceramic Wood. I found
these on Etsy – which seems to be a good place for international sellers to reach a wide market. Cute idea
for teapots (they listed them as pitchers), and they come in a wide variety of colors.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/k246w.jpg"><img src="teapots/k246wr.jpg" width="162" height="150" alt="colorful Maylaysian teapot"></a></div
></td>
<td> This very colorful rotund teapot came all the way from Malaysia. It's sort of special because the seller gave it a name,
"Craig's Cow Creamers" in raised small black letters. It was actually a bit of a hassle to get it because the shipping to Alaska
was exorbitant and I had to cancel the order then reorder for a Virginia address. It came with a couple cute tea cups.</td>
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<td scope="col">
<p>
<div align="center"><a href="teapots/6.jpg"><img src="teapots/6r.jpg" width="140" height="200" alt="Hot Mama cow teapot"></a></div>
</p>
</td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This “hot mama” was made in China. Cute, and hard to ship withoput breaking, I found to my dismay.</p>
</td>
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<td scope="col">
<div align="center"><a href="teapots/7.jpg"><img src="teapots/7r.jpg" width="180" height="200" alt="Cowmen Mooranda cow teapot"></a></div>
</td>
<td scope="col">
<p>Here’s Vandor’s “Cowmen Mooranda” of 1988 in the teapot version – there’s also a large pitcher that’s
shown in the Heads theme. </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/k258w.JPG"><img src="teapots/k258wr.jpg" width="136" height="150" alt="Ayussie caricature teapot"></a></div></td>
<td>
<p>With a gourd-shaped body and bulbous nose, this teapot made a long trip to me from Australia. It's unmarked but I'd imagine
it was made somewhere north of there. </a> </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/k223.JPG"><img src="teapots/k223r.JPG" width="200" height="152" alt="Heather Goldminc cow teapot"></a></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This fun caricature comes from Blue Sky Clayworks, and was created by Canadian artist Heather
Goldminc. You can read about her and her work on her homepage, <a href="http://www.heathergoldminc.com/"
target="_blank">www.heathergoldminc.com</a> </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/heather.jpg"><img src="teapots/heatherr.jpg" width="176" height="145" alt="Holstein by Heather Goldminc"></a></div></td>
<td>
<p> Heather did more than one cow teapot for Blue Sky, and they weren't all wierd. Not completely realistic, this one,
but at least it has all of its parts in the right places. And once you have read about Heather, you can find out more about
the company that's located in Ontario, CA and is "Your Source for Exceptionally Designed Ceramic Tabletop Products", at<a href="http://www.blueskyclayworks.com" target="_blank"> www.blueskyclayrorks.com </a>. If you thought the cow teapots were wild, you should check our some of their others. Pricey, but very nice. </p></td>
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<tr>
<td><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/k256w.JPG"><img src="teapots/k256wr.jpg" width="165" height="145" alt="Holstein singing with chicken"></a></div></td>
<td><p>Heather didn't make this one, indeed I have no idea who made it but it's from China. She is a
very happy cow, proud of her chicken lid, and seems to be singing.
</p></td>
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<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/8.jpg"><img src="teapots/8r.jpg" width="200" height="100" hspace="5" alt="Japanese long necked cow teapot with rhinestones"></a>
<a href="teapots/k152a.jpg"><img src="teapots/k152ar.jpg" width="200" height="100" alt="Japanese long necked cow teapot"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>On the left is another really wild one – complete with rhinestones for eyes, nostrils, and sundry
decorations. This is one of those that no one but a collector could love, so the eBay price was a
bargain. I'll confess to cheating a bit with it, since it
came without its creamer and sugar and I added a couple tiny cups just so the hooks didn't look
foolish. Then several years later, along came the complete one on the right, without rhinestones, and I
couldn't resist. It did however cost $1 more than its
partner. </p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/p1150710.JPG"><img src="teapots/p1150710r.jpg" width="200" height="123" alt="Two Japanese long necked cow teapots or decanters"></a></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>If you think those are weird, try these. The one with the dark purple head, knobby horns and bulgy red
nose (which is actually a stopper) is most likely from Thames of Japan. It still has a couple of the cups
that are supposed to hang on the little hooks (these are the ones I ‘borrowed’ for use with the rhinestone
long-neck), but also has had a couple of its hooks broken off. Its companion has a hole at either end, and
is designed to hold two different liquids. I tried it and it does indeed have two separate compartments.
Presumably it originally came with a sugar and creamer like the ones above.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/om109.JPG"><img src="teapots/om109r.jpg" width="200" height="119" alt="Japanese long nected cow teapot or decanter"></a></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This variation on the long-skinny-funny-looking-cow theme comes with 6 cups each stamped “Japan” but with
only a single hole, under the nose stopper. Heavens knows whether it was intended to hold tea, sake, or
whatever…</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/k250w.jpg"><img src="teapots/k250wr.jpg" width="104" height="150" alt="large ceramic cow on 3 teats"></a></div></td>
<td><p>More weird. Heavy ceramic, sold as a bull but then bulls don't have three of those bulgy things at the bottom to rest upon. Certainly unusual - handmade. I learned a bidding lesson with this one. On an eBay auction, if no one else has bid and you really think you want it but will bid higher or 'snipe' later, put in a miniumum bid so it can't be withdrawn. Well, that's what I did here even though I wasn't sure I wanted it - figured someone else would since it was so cheap, but - lucky me - I got it for 99 cents (plus of course a large shipping fee).</p></td>
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<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/k208.JPG"><img src="teapots/k208r.jpg" width="200" height="141" alt="Stoneware cow teapot from Java"></a></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This stoneware teapot with brass bells around the neck is entitled “Buffalo and Bird Friends”, and was
bought from Novica, which operates in association with National Geographic and sells all kinds of articles
crafted by artists and artisans from several countries in South America, Africa and Asia. This lovely
teapot came from Bali or Java and was made (their site informs me) by Tat Yan Soo, who “was born in
November 1955. As a lover of nature and avid gardener, he wanted to create designs that revolved around
flora and fauna. He also loves to cook, so he strives to craft products that are decorative, functional and
durable.” </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col">
<div align="center"><a href="teapots/k179.jpg"><img src="teapots/k179r.jpg" width="165" height="200" alt="Character Collectibles cow teapot"></a></div>
</td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This floppy eared black and white cow wins the prize for the biggest ceramic bell. It bears a 2001
copyright mark, is called “Oh My Darling Cow”, and hails from “Ontario CA 91761, Handcrafted in China, ©
Character Collectibles.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/k215.JPG"><img src="teapots/k215r.jpg" width="200" height="165" alt="Jameson & Tailor cow teapot"></a></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>I always try to find a cow creamer or teapot when my wife and I take an overseas trip. I do have a
Latvian creamer that I bought through eBay, and thus had high hopes for our jaunt through the Baltic
nations, but was devoid of success until near the end, when I found this teapot in a teashop in Vilnius,
Lithuania. Unfortunately it’s not Lithuanian – rather it is marked for “Jameson & Tailor, Artists of
the World, strange 200”, a German company whose bilingual website <a href="http://www.jameson-tailor.de/">www.jameson-tailor.de</a>
proudly states “Tea and coffe (sic) accessories are our passion”. </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" scope="col"><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/k193.JPG"><img src="teapots/k193r.jpg" width="145" height="200" hspace="10" alt="Small jester cow teapot"></a>
<a href="teapots/k193a.JPG"><img src="teapots/k193ar.jpg" width="200" height="152" alt="Jester clown teapot and salt shaker"></a>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>Here’s a strange one – a cow jester, dressed in a box…accompanied by a salt shaker for some reason,
presumably because the other parts of the set got lost. The only sticker on it says ‘hand wash only’, and
it’s made from some very heavy material, so I have no idea about its origins.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center">
<a href="teapots/k249w.jpg"><img src="teapots/k249wr.jpg" width="122" height="150" alt="glass tespot made in China"></a>
<a href="teapots/k260w.JPG"><img src="teapots/k260wr.jpg" width="110" height="150" hspace="5" alt="ceral=mic similar"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p> The interesting glass teapot on the left was made in China and sold on Ebay by a company in Sri Lanka.
The ad for it said it could be heated on an electric stove...but mine is gas so I'm not going to try. Its cousin ion the
right is ceramic but sure looks similar and I have to assume it is also from China/.</p></bockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k55egg.jpg"><img src="teapots/k55eggr.jpg" alt="Egg Tokes cow teapot""
width="149" height="145"></a>
<a href="teapots/k40flatface.jpg"><img src="teapots/k40flatfacer.jpg" width="155" height="145" hspace=5" alt="flat sided B&W cow teapot"></a>
<a href="teapots/k66thinlegs.jpg"><img src="teapots/k66thinlegsr.jpg" width="109" height="145" alt="Spherical body and very long thin leggs cow creamer"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>Three more fanciful teapots – the one on the left is by “Egg Tokes, ©sigma the Tastesetter”. A matching
creamer and sugar are in the Sugar & Creamers theme. The other two arrived via eBay (the round one on the
right from Calgary Alberta). Although my version of the one in tghe middle is unmarked, I have seen one on offer that has a house shaped pg bearing the info that it is from Hallmark, labeled Goodland, Knsas, and Made in Mexico. That one also had a Mde in Mexico sticker on the base.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k185a1.jpg"><img src="teapots/k185a1r.jpg" width="180" height="190"
hspane="5" alt="Homemade teapot with bull heads left"></a>
<a href="teapots/k185b1.jpg"><img src="teapots/k185b1r.jpg" width="180" height="190" alt="Homemade teapot with bull heads, right"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>This one probably shouldn’t count because it just has cow or rather bull heads rather then the whole
animal shape, but it’s homemade…the writing on the bottom looks to me like “Mbiiers”… and rather
intriguing. I coudn’t resist.</p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col">
<div align="left"><a href="teapots/10.jpg"><img src="teapots/10r.jpg" width="200" height="138" alt="Cow teapot composed of vegetables"></a></div>
</td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This ‘veggie’ calf is marked for CBK Ltd of Taiwan (to learn more about CBK, check out the aluminum cow
creamer near the bottom of page 3 of Modern Variations), and dated 1988.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k243a.jpg"><img src="teapots/k243ar.jpg" width="213" height="150" alt="klein teapot"></a>
<a href="teapots/k243b.jpg"><img src="teapots/k243br.jpg" width="211" height="150" hspace="5" alt="klein back"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>This beautiful and very large ceramic teapot bears a tag for "Klein" ceramics. A web search tells us that they are located in Bangkok, Thailand, but nothing else beyond the address plus of course pointers to a lot of their other products. This teapot is somewhat unusual in that the spout is sort of a 'tree' coming up from behind the cow's back. The back of the leaf shaped tag reads "This is a hand made and handcoloured object inspired by nature": in English, German and French. </p></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col">
<div align="left"><a href="teapots/11.jpg"><img src="teapots/11r.jpg" width="200" height="121" alt="Khein ceramic cow teapot with bluebird on lid"></a></div>
</td>
<td scope="col">
<p>Here is a second Klein cow teapot, this time with a milk bottle coming up from the back for a spout and a bluebird on the lid. This Bangkok company seems to have a predeliction for unusual spouts, at least on their cow teapots. I wonder if there are more?
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/K108.jpg"><img src="teapots/K108r.jpg" width="200" height="150" alt="U*nmarked white cow teapot"></a></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This simple pure white lazy teapot is unmarked.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col"><a href="teapots/K218.JPG"><img src="teapots/k218r.jpg" width="200" height="144" alt="Brown and White cow teapot with rooster on lid"></a></td>
<td scope="col">
<p>This rather large brown and white cow is also unmarked, but bears a rather colorful roosted on its back.
It came damaged, with a re-glued left ear, but I have never seen another like it.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td scope="col">
<div align="left"><a href="teapots/12.jpg"><img src="teapots/12r.jpg" width="200" height="152" alt="Signature Home holstein teapot"></a></div>
</td>
<td scope="col">
<p>Here’s a large pretty Holstein decorated with fruit and vegetables from the Signature Home Collection,
made in China. I bought this one on eBay in 2004. I liked it enough that a few years later I got a
duplicate, complete with box.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k241a.jpg"><img src="teapots/k241ar.jpg" width="196" height="150" alt="cow teapot with grapes and leaves, side"></a>
<a href="teapots/k241b.jpg"><img src="teapots/k241br.jpg" width="127" height="150" hspace="5" alt="cow teapot with grapes.ont"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>The decorations on this cute caricature with bulbous nose and tiny horns are grapes and their leaves - includoing a big bunch of grapes servbing as the knob on the lid. It is unmarked but nicely made and fairly heavy.</p></blockquote>
</td>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k19s.JPG"><img src="teapots/k19sr.jpg" width="200" height="130" "Three similar German cow teapots"></a></div>
<p>Seemingly identical, these three teapots have somewhat different histories. The one on the right, which
came to me from Germany, is stamped for “Erphila, Germany” and bears the mold mark 718. Erphila ia the mark
used by Ebeling and Reuss, a giftware importer and distributor founded in 1886 in Philadelphia (thus
E…R…Phila) and sold to Strathmore Corp in 2002, on porcelain and art work imported from Europe. The
Erphila, Germany mark would indicate that it was made by Porzellanfabrik Carl Schumann of Arzburg Bavaria
which traces its history to 1876 and closed in 1994 (see PM&M,
www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/bavaria/arzberg_2/00.php). Apparently in spite of the Erphila mark it never
made it out of Germany, or somehow it made a return trip. The cow on the left bears the same mold mark but
also a conjoined “AK” and the word foreign, which indicates it was imported for sale into the UK, which is
where I got it. The middle teapot looks very similar but has a different mold mark and is both stamped and
has a sticker for Cortendorf, the Bavarian city (today Coburg-Cortendorf) where (from PM&M)
Porzellanfabrik Julius Griesbach operated from 1890 until the factory was taken over by Goebel in 1973.
Interestingly, most Cortendorf teapots like this were sold unmarked to Ebeling and Reuss, but pretty
obviously this one was sold into the US under the Cortendorf label. Not only was this an apparently popular
German-made animal teapot, but…</p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/14.jpg"><img src="teapots/14r.jpg" width="200" height="131" alt="Similar English and a Japanese cow teapot"></a></div>
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<p>it was also copied in the UK. Here the teapot on the left, seemingly identical to its German cousins, is
stamped for Price Bros England, and clearly marked “Made in England”. The Stoke on Trent Potteries web site
tells us that Price Bros. started as an earthenware manufacturer at Crown Works, Burslem from 1896-1903,
continued as Price Bros (Burslem) Ltd at Top Bridge Works, Longport & the Albion Works, Burslem from
1903-1961, and became part of Price & Kensington Potteries Ltd, from 1 Jan 62 on. The mark on this
treapot was used by them from 1934 till 1961. The Japanese also seem to have gotten into the act with
somewhat similar teapots, although their interpretation shown here is simply stamped Made in Japan.<br>
</p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/24.jpg"><img src="teapots/24r.jpg" width="200" height="119" alt="Holstein teraport set"></a></div>
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<p>Now for a series of sets – teapots with creamers and sugars, and an occasional pitchers or salt and
peppers. This “Tabletop Set” is made in China, but for an American importer.</p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/25.jpg"><img src="teapots/25r.jpg" width="200" height="96" alt="KMC black and white cow teapot set"></a></div>
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<p>Here’s another Made in China set, marked “©KMC”. There’s a matching set of storage jars that go with it.</p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/26.jpg"><img src="teapots/26r.jpg" width="200" height="93" alt="Peaceful Kingdom cow teapot setr"></a></div>
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<p>This pretty set, with two teapots/pitchers, is titled “Peaceful Kingdom” and claims to be hand painted
faience, “exclusively for ©Seymour Mann, Inc”, dated 1992. I certainly can’t quibble about its
exclusivity, but would wonder if this isn’t a bit of a loose usage of the term faience.</p>
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<a href="teapots/27.jpg"><img src="teapots/27r.jpg" width="200" height="122" hspace="5" alt="Pudgy caricature cow teapot set"></a>
<a href="teapots/27a.jpg"><img src="teapots/27ar.jpg" width="200" height="127" hspace="5" alt="Barnyard cow teapot set by Appletree Design"></a>
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<blockquote>
<p>Two other made in china sets, the round guys with the gold bells marked for “©J.S.N.Y.”, and the
‘barnyard’ set with bandannas and chickens on the teapot and sugar from Appletree Design . </p></blockquote>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/28.jpg"><img src="teapots/28r.jpg" width="200" height="110" alt="Rectangular shaped cow caricature teapot set with checkerboard design"></a></div>
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<p>China yet again…this time a strange looking checkerboard caricature, from “Unique Produx, Inc.”</p>
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<a href="teapots/m7m8su19.jpg"><img src="teapots/m7m8su19r.jpg" width="145" height="145" alt="B&W rectangular Dept 56 teapot & C&S"></a></div></td>
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<p> Another black and white rectangular set of teapot, creamer sand sugar. This one is from Department 56, which per their web site began in the mid 1970s as a department in a large retail florist in Minneapolis. They initially specialized in Christmas or snow viillages, later added 'Snowbabies' and over the years have expanded into other giftware and collectible schlock. The history page of their website gives you a year by year breakdown of their expansion, through acquitition by a NY iunvestment firm in 1992 to ultimately became a part of the huge ENESCO falify of 'stuff' peddlers in 2009. They give a nice short history of ENESCO which I copy here: " Enesco's International Headquarters is located in Itasca, Ill. ENESCO was founded in 1958 as the import division of N. Shure Company, one of the largest and oldest general merchandise catalog companies. Following N. Shure's sale to Butler Brothers, the import division reorganized as Enesco Corporation, formed from the phonic spellings of the prior parent company's name initials - N.S.Co. Enesco was sold four times, culminating in 2007 when substantially all of Enesco's assets were sold to Tinicum Capital Partners II, LLP, a private investment partnership. Enesco then became a privately-held company and changed its legal name to Enesco, LLC." They then add that ENESCO was bought by a LA pruvate equity firm, Balmoral Funds, in 2015. Through all of this Dept 56 has kept on keeping on with its seasonal items and snowbabies. They didn't make a lot of cows, but have turned out a few. There is a unmarked pitcher similar to these on that page.</p>
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<div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/couch.jpg"><img src="teapots/couchr.jpg" alt="tea set" width="225"
height="150" alt="Knitting cows teapot set by Applause"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>This set of knitters bears the sticker of Applause, Inc., and was made in Thailand. Applause seems to have had the same sort of ups and downs as a number of other toy and novelty companies, inclusindg Russ Berrie that acquired the name after it went bankrupt around 2004. From what I can make out from a rather confusing short article in Wikipedia, it bagan as the Wallace Berrie Co in 1966, did well with Smurfs in the late 70s early 80s, acquires the Applause name part of Knickerbocker Toys and then changed the company name to Applause Inc. It licensed a number of famous brands, acquired a number of other companies, but ultimately ran out of gas. </p></blockquote>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/greenfarmers.jpg"><img src="teapots/greenfarmersr.jpg" alt="Holsteins in green teapot set"
width="200" height="150"></a></div>
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<p>This set of farm hands bears stickers on their aprons and bib overalls that announce they are from Coopercraft, Made in England. From
poking around on the web, it appears that Coopercraft was best known for dog figurines. They were
apparently a brand of Summerbank of 38 High Street Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, foiunded in 1954 and
ultimately dissolved in 2001. This company apparently struggled for a number of years, since the UK records
show a number of dissolutions from different addresses in that area. Almost 20 years after I acquired this
set, I bought a 'vintage' sugar and creamer (no tea pot this time, and no indication of the maker) from the
same mold, shown on that page. </p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/k30su20m5.jpg"><img src="teapots/k30su20m5r.jpg" alt="tea set" width="206"
height="145" alt="Clay Art Cow in the Corn teapot set"></a></div>
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<p>This handpainted 'Cow in the Corn' set is by Clay Art of 389 Oyster Point Blvd in San Francisco, and was
made in Taiwan. Clay Art was founded in 1979 by Michael Zanfagna and Jenny McLain-Doores, and in 2009 was
taken over by Renovo, which best as I can tell is a private equity firm founded that year in Dallas that
"makes control equity investments in troubled and underperforming companies and other special situation
opportunities." The web shows a number of other acquisitions by then, in a variety of fields. I have
several other Clay Art pieces including some stacked animals, all made somewhere in SE Asia. They were
apparently best known for masks made to hang on walls, from the few snippets available on the web. </p>
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<a href="teapots/k61.jpg"><img src="teapots/k61r.jpg" width="150" height="145" alt="corn themed B&W cow teapot"></a></div></td>
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<p>No accompamnying creamer and sugar with thi one, but it does stick with the corn theme. It came in a box marked “Kitchen Basics Novelty Teapot, Imported & Distributed by Port-Style Enterprises Inc, Markham, Ontario, Canada, Made in China”. </p></td>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/32.jpg"><img src="teapots/32r.jpg" width="200" height="127" alt="Trippie's cow apple grower teapot set"></a></div>
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<p>Yet another farmer – apple growers this time. They’re from Trippie’s, Inc, and were made in China. For
some reason I keep forgetting that I have this set – I have ended up with three of the teapots, the last
one bought at (of all places) Rock City on the top of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, TN. I guess I was
bewitched by their fairies.</p>
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<a href="teapots/3russ.jpg"><img src="teapots/3russr.jpg" width="192" height="145" alt="Russ Berrie cowboy teapot, s&c"></a></td>
<td><p>No farmers these, rather cowboys (and girl). They are from Russ Berrie Co. which Wikipedia tells us was named after its founder, Russell Berrie (1932-2002) and began as a mker of stuffed animals, toys and gifts. AS it became focused on play items for infants and juveniles it acquired Sassy Inc in July 2002, Kids Line LLC in Dec 04 nd CoCaLo Inc and LaJobi Inc in April 08. "In December 2008, the company divested its gift business operations to The Russ Companies, Inc. (TRC),[3] previously The Encore Group. The Company retained the Russ and Applause brands, and licensed them to TRC. By April 2011, The Russ Companies filed for Chapter 7 Liquidation Bankruptcy and no longer exists as an entity." In Sept 09 Russ Berrie and Company changed its corporate name to Kids Brands Inc.</p></td>
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<td><a href="teapots/lifeathome.jpg"><img src="teapots/lifeathomer.jpg" width="200" height="144" alt="Loblaw's Cow Chef teapot set"></a></td>
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<p>Loblaws Inc of Canada designed this cute Chef set (French Chef of course), © 2007 and stamped “Life@Home
and La vie @hez soi”, ‘spring meadow’ théière (Produit de Chine, of course…). Loblaws started in 1919 in
Toronto as something new for the time – a ‘groceteria’ which combined self-service and cash and carry. They
weathered hard times by introducing many innovations (including No Name products, President’s Choice,
banking, and more recently Joe Fresh Style clothing), and today operate a successful chain of ‘market’
stores. For us Yanks that aren’t familiar with them, there’s a fun history of this innovative company on
their great web page at <a href="http://www.loblaws.ca" target="_blank">www.loblaws.ca</a>. I’d like to
thank them for one of the neatest cow teapot sets I’ve seen in quite awhile.</p>
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<td><a href="teapots/andrea.JPG"><img src="teapots/andrear.jpg" width="200" height="147" alt="Andrea by Sadek cow teapot setr"></a></td>
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<p>This set comes from Andrea by Sadek, per their web page: “also known as the Charles Sadek Import Company
or j. willfred, Andrea by Sadek is a product line with over 2,000 products in 20 categories.” They
were made in China. There are several other cows from this gift and tableware company scattered through out
the web site.</p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/32x.jpg"><img src="teapots/32xr.jpg" width="200" height="150" alt="Flat faced cow teapot set with cups and saucers"></a></div>
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<p>This flat-faced group is part of a “Grandeur Gift Set” by “TOP maestro”, made in China. In addition to
these pieces the set contains 4 cups and saucers. </p>
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<td><a href="teapots/p1170965.JPG"><img src="teapots/p1170965r.jpg" width="200" height="115" alt="Heavy older ceramic white cow teapot set"></a></td>
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<p>This unmarked, though likely post-war Japanese, set is of very heavy ceramic. The teapot still bears a
few signs of black cold paint. </p>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/33.jpg"><img src="teapots/33r.jpg" width="200" height="122" alt="Large red-nosed cow teapot set with huge S&P"></a></div>
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<p>This set, which has a huge salt and pepper as well as the pitcher, sugar and creamer, bears an impressed
“Japan” on the base. It would appear to be designed to resemble the cows popularized by geo. z. lefton,
see the Brands theme. </p>
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<td><a href="teapots/k29set.jpg"><img src="teapots/k29setr.jpg" width="200" height="123" alt="Otagiri Formal Cow with red bow tie teapot set with cups and S&P"></a></td>
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<p>This pristine, never used set that’s about a decade or more old comes complete with salt, pepper and cups
and is marked for Otagiri. Another one of the teapots and the little girl creamer were in the ‘Brands’
theme where that company was described. I got those two separately, but was pleased to be able to get a
full set. </p>
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<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k239set.jpg"><img src="teapots/k239setr.jpg" width="222" height="145" alt="Otagiri set"></a></div>
<blockquote>
<p>For many years I have had the creamer and sugar that go with this Otagiri set - and they are shown on that page. But I couldn't resist having a couple duplicates - not to mention the butter dish - when the teapot became available. I now need to find a good home for the duplicates.>/p></blockquote>
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<div align="center"><br>
<a href="teapots/k12su2sg16.jpg"><img src="teapots/k12su2sg16r.jpg" width="212"
height="145" hspace="5" alt="Small grey cow teaset with heads on handle"></a>
<a href="teapots/35.jpg"><img src="teapots/35r.jpg" width="225" height="145" alt="Small brown and white cow teapot set"></a>
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<blockquote>
<p>Here are two older sets with heads
on the handles – one with pudgy water buffalos, the other with cows. They're unmarked, but I’d guess both sets are from the
same factory and that they are early post-WWII Japanese. </p></blockquote>
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<a href="teapots/k33stack.jpg"><img src="teapots/k33stackr.jpg" width="122" height="145" alt="Thames of Japan black cow teapot nstack"></a></div></td>
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<p> Yet another older Japanese set - this one bears a sticker from Thames of Japan. Sort of cute, but awkward to use. They must have been fairly popular in their day because they come up not infrequently on Ebay. </p></td>
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<a href="teapots/k252w.jpg"><img src="teapots/k252wr.jpg" width="212" height="140" alt="Thames of Japan black cow teapot "></a></div></td>
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<p> Never waste a good mold. Here's the bottom, 'teapot' cow from the stack above, in black with mostly rubbed off gold trim </p></td>
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<div align="left"><a href="teapots/36.jpg"><img src="teapots/36r.jpg" width="200" height="134" alt="Older Japanese cow teapot set"></a></div>
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<p>This is another interesting old Japanese made tea set, with just heads for the creamer and sugar. It has
a rectangular blue sticker with a white rim and “Japan” in white.</p>
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<div align="center"><a href="teapots/3purplehats.jpg"><img src="teapots/3purplehatsr.jpg" width="198" height="150" alt="Lady cows with pearls and fancy hats teapot set"></a></div>
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<p> These ladies in their pearls and fancy hats – teapot, pitcher and creamer - bear a made in China
sticker. They came from Australia via eBay. </p>
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<a href="teapots/henriksen.jpg"><img src="teapots/henriksenr.jpg" width="207" height="150" alt="Henriksen teapot, pitcher & creamer"></a></div>
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<p>Here is another set of teapot, pitcher and creamer, by Henrikesen Imports, Inc, made in Japan.
The pitcher and creamer are also shown in the Pitshers page, but I've included them here with the much more recvently acquired teapot. </p></td>
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<div align="center"><a href="teapots/40.jpg"><img src="teapots/40r.jpg" width="200" height="150" alt="Eliz Brownd black and white cow teapot and creamer by Otagiri"></a></div>
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<p>These are from Otagiri, now one of the Enesco brands of ceramic collectibles. The design is copyrighted
for Elizabeth King Brownd, and they were manufactured in Malaysia. As noted in Favorite Brands, Oragiri
has produced quite a few cow creamers over the years. </p>
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<a href="teapots/k169170.jpg"><img src="teapots/k169170r.jpg" width="179" height="145" alt="Fiona Stokes coiws with red sneakers"></a></div>
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<p> Two more from Otagiri, these made in Japan. They are marked for 'Fiona Stokes, J. Papel'. A quick web search turns up a cow mug and a cow on a music box also wearing the red moon sneakers. It also seems that Fiona Stokes-Gilbert is a Los Angeled based designer of cunsumer products and textiles. I think this is her only cow. I don't understasnd the S. Papel bit, but it seems to be attached to the red sneakers items only, best I can tell.</p></td>
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<a href="teapots/fatfarmer.jpg"><img src="teapots/fatfarmerr.jpg" width="190" height="165" hspace="5" alt="Cow farmer in green overalls teapot"></a>
<a href="teapots/asleep.jpg"><img src="teapots/asleepr.jpg" width="200" height="165" alt="Boy asleep in haystack cow teapot with cups"></a></div>
<blockquote>