TITLE: Airflow
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: Introduced 1938
COLLECTION: Museum of Ceramics/Ohio History Connection

Introduced in 1938 in the 8 cup size with the 6 cup introduced the following year this example is Marine in the standard design. “An advertisement in December 1941 states, ‘The Airflow is perfectly balanced and is as simple to lift as a purse, easy to pour and the lid won’t fall off’ “. (Barneby, 2005).

Tea Trivia:
Clarence Kelley, a dance school owner, wanted an easy dance for small children to do.  So, along with George Sanders, he wrote a catchy.  tune called The Teapot Song and included simple dance movements to pantomime a steaming teapot.  Better known as I’m a Little Teapot, the song was recorded in 1939 by Art Kassel’s band and was an instant hit.  (I’m, 2021).

TITLE: Cube
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: introduced in 1926
COLLECTION: John and Peg Thompson

The Cube is a small 2 cup teapot that has spout and handle within the boundaries of the pot. The patents for the pot were issued in 1921 and 1926. Robert Crawford Johnson, designed the teapot and its accompanying creamer and sugar for marketing to tea and coffee shops where breakage of spouts and handles was a common everyday event. (Barnebey, 2005).

Tea Trivia:
The Newell Teapot is not named after the town of Newell! It is named after Martin Newell, a member of the pioneering graphics program at the University of Utah. Also called the Utah Teapot, this 3D test model is a standard reference within the computer graphics profession. The curves, saddle points, and hollow spaces of this famous teapot has helped develop the type of computer graphics that are seen in Pixar films and other media.(Utah, 2021). Watch the Newell teapot YouTube video

The Dodecagon has 12 sides and is shown here with the metal lid and the Chrysler decoration. The Dodecagon was made for the Forman Brothers company that focused on silver and chrome items. (Barnebey, 2005).
A specific date for production of the Dodecagon is hard to ascertain but the art deco motif suggests that it was one of the earlier designs produced by the Hall China Company for Forman.

TITLE: No Drip
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: early 1950s
COLLECTION: Museum of Ceramics/Ohio History Connection

With an inverted spout and shaped like the Globe teapot this No Drip teapot is often called the Globe No Drip due to it’s similarity in shape to the original Globe style and to differentiate the shape from the No Drip style introduced by Hall in the 1970s.
This example is chartreuse with the standard gold decoration. (Barnebey, 2005).

TITLE: Molded
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: 1908 - 1913
COLLECTION: Museum of Ceramics/Ohio History Connection H651

The back stamp indicates the age of this beautiful molded teapot from the Hall China Company. The stamp, in use from 1903 to 1913 was used prior to 1908 on hotel and commercial ware. The example her is possibly the oldest Hall teapot in the Museum of Ceramic Collection. (Barnebey, 2005).

The E-Style is a J. Palin Thorley design. Thorley joined the Wedgwood company when he was fourteen and is best known for his work for the Hall China Company and Taylor, Smith & Taylor. (J. Palin Thorley, 1919).

TITLE: Basket
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: introduced in 1938
COLLECTION: John and Peg Thompson

The Basket is a 6-cup teapot and is considered one of the six Novelty teapots that includes the Doughnut, The Automobile, the Birdcage, the Football and the Basketball. The first three listed are on exhibit in the Hall Galleries. (Whitmyer, 1997).

The cavities on the sides are to hold tea bags. These, like the cube and flat-side teapots, which can be found in the Hall Galleries, were marketed to the restaurant, coffee and tea house sector for small groups seated in compact and intimate settings.

TITLE: Doughnut
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: 1939-1941
COLLECTION: Museum of Ceramics/Ohio History Connection H1880 and John and Peg Thompson

The Doughnut was introduced in 1938 as part of the Hall China Company “novelty” series along with the Football and the Airflow. Between 1939 and 1941 it was part of the Hall Superior Quality Kitchenware. This chinese red example is from that series. (Barnebey, 2005).

TITLE: Flat-sides
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: introduced 1961
COLLECTION: Museum of Ceramics/Ohio History Connection

The small Flat-sides teapot is found in 1 1/2 cup size. It can be found at Bob Evans Restaurants where it is used to serve hot water for guests. It is generally found in solid colors but can also be found in Golden Glo ( a full gold glaze). (Barnebey, 2005).

The Bru-O-Lator example, pictured here, was introduced for the McCormick company in 1933, it is green and white with a platinum decoration. This shape was the standard McCormick teapot through 1996 when McCormick started getting wares from China.. (Barnebey, 2005).

TITLE: Birdcage
MAKER: Hall China Company
DATE: Introduced in 1938
COLLECTION: John and Peg Thompson

The Birdcage is one of the Hall China Company’s Novelty teapots. The molded teapot “features a design of embossed flying birds around the body. It has a circular hoop on the lid and a short spout, along with a thin looped handle.” Our example, is a reissue of the teapot produced in the 1990s. The main difference between the original and reissue is that the finial on the lid is an open ring in early production teapots and closed in the later teapots. (Hall, 2014).

In 1934 the McCormick Tea Company constructed a replica of an English Teahouse in their McCormick building in Boston, Massachusetts. They called it “Ye Old McCormick Teahouse.” In 1984 and 1985 The Hall China Company produced, for McCormick, the “Anne Hathaway Cottage.” It was designed by Don Schreckengost with the date above the door (similar to a house number) indicating the year of production. Our example was produced in 1985. The decal depicts the exterior and the interior, seen through the windows, of a traditional English Teahouse. (Barnebey, 2005). The 100th Anniversary commemoration on the teapot has not been attributed.