Silverleaf Bonsai Tree Reassembled Ring Teapot

I have begun naming my teapots after ideas, moods, animals, or shapes their finished compositions and colors suggest to me, rather than after their cross-section profile and glaze color. This teapot has a kind of "Liberty Bell" cross-section, but it floats like a Japanese bonsai tree, so I gave it that name. For the finial I added curving plantlike tendrils to the lid just in front of the handle. I like the way the composition is cantilevered to the right over the oval base. I think the user would need two hands to pour tea from this teapot. The glaze is a particularly rich soft lavender gray color I called "silverleaf."

This teapot is held in a private collection in Redford, Michigan.