Midnight Blue Intersecting Arcs Reassembled Ring Teapot

My career as a ceramic artist has been dedicated to making useful objects, and when I started to make these teapots, their functionality was important to me. It was the constraint that I was placing on the form, the way a poet might choose a meter and rhyme scheme. Some of my reassembled ring teapots, like this one, however, I admit are only barely functional. There’s not much room in this teapot for tea! I couldn’t resist the elegance of the reassembled shape, though you may want to brew your tea in a conventional teapot, then use this one to serve it.

This teapot is held in a private collection in Pownal, Vermont.