Topic: Ever seen a hand-blown Pyrex teapot?

[Lustrousstone]

Well I found one and, thanks to Ken, found out when abouts it was made. The body is hand blown but the lid is pressed and faintly marked Pyrex

http://www.chataboutdg.com/gallery/img10029.htm

There are more in the Corning Museum but none quite like mine handlewise, which is a 2-pt one.

I have now realised that the base mark is JP and not a poor CP, which means it is a Jobling Pyrex and perhaps not quite so early but probably pre the Flameware teapots of the 1940s

[brewster]

When I read the title, I immediately thought of the borosilicate glass teapots made by the long-time Australian artist Peter Minson. You can see examples on his website and at the Craft ACT online shop (about three items down the list).

Peter Minson comes from a family of of scientific glassmakers in Sydney. He experimented with his own pot furnace in the mid-1970 and then worked blowing furnace glass at the Paris Creek workshops near Adelaide in the late 1970s and early 80s. Since then he has returned to his roots, lampworking borosilicate rods and tubes, mostly making decorative and functional household items.

There is a distinction here between Pyrex the brand name and generic heat-resistant borosilicate glass, as used in laboratory equipment. From  elsewhere on Minson's website, I gather he may use a different brand of the material.

Trevor

[Ivo]

Borosilicate blown teapots have been first made by Schott in Germany after a design by Wagenfeld in the 1920s,  later revised by Heinrich Löffelhardt.  These are still in production, even if the design is modernised every so  many years. They have also been extensively made by Saale glass - the Gdr firm who took over  the Schott works. Besides,  many companies who did borosilicate glass made lookalike teapots.

[Lustrousstone]

Thank you both. I realise they have been about for a long while and still are but here the novelty is in the Pyrex mark, its age and that it is hand blown. I also had this scarcity
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=148

Interesting reads
http://blog.cmog.org/2014/01/16/tea-time-the-making-of-the-pyrex-teapot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tea-time-the-making-of-the-pyrex-teapot
http://blackcountrymemories.org.uk/phoenix/phoenix05.htm