Teapot, earthenware, vase shape, with metal lid, decorated with pink printed flowers; comprehensive printed mark on base states item is a patent self-pouring design made for the patentee, J J Royle, by Doulton, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1886
Royle's Self-Pouring teapot was made to work by first raising the deep cylindrical lid, then plunging it down whilst covering the steam hole in the knop; the piston-like action forces tea through a grating in the floor of the pot beneath which is a void leading to the downward-pointing spout
Royle's Self-Pouring teapot was made to work by first raising the deep cylindrical lid, then plunging it down whilst covering the steam hole in the knop; the piston-like action forces tea through a grating in the floor of the pot beneath which is a void leading to the downward-pointing spout
