Vintage Porcelain Coffee Tea Pot Designer 1977 Hornsea Concept England Rare

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Vintage Porcelain Coffee Tea Pot Designer 1977 Hornsea Concept England Rare :
$50.00

Listed is a Fabulousy stylish and collectable - a wonderful rare coffee pot made by Hornsea Pottery England in the Concept design. When it was launched in 1977 it immediately won the British Design Council Award for that year.

What marks this design out is the combination of glazed and unglazed surfaces on each piece, using a special unglazed stoneware body which Hornsea called Vitramic. This gave an added tactile feel to the already interesting surface design of moulded radiating circles and ovals. The inside is glazed, with just the centre circle on the outside glazed, the rest left matt. The design was by Martin Hunt and David Queensberry (who had a design partnership from 1966 to 1999 and worked for a number of ceramic firms). The finishing touch is the adorable swan finial on the lid - so sweet!

This particular design was very popular with newlyweds and continued to be manufactured by Hornsea until 1991.

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London (the world\'s leading design museum) has a number of examples of the Concept range, most notably this coffee pot, in its collection as well as on display in the Ceramics Study Galleries.
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