Range Cooker Teapot — Red
The same cast-iron range in pillar-box red, with a chrome kettle for the lid and a blue-striped towel over the rail. Red is the loudest of the three and the one that decides the shelf it sits on.
The red glaze is fired a little hotter than the navy and comes out with more gloss, so the two are not quite a matched pair if you stand them side by side — close, but the red catches more light. That is a property of the pigment, not a fault.
Same mould, same capacity, same fragile front rail. Treat the rail as a towel hanger rather than a handle.
Specification
- Capacity: approximately 15 fl oz (one to two cups)
- Dimensions: approximately 8 × 3 ½ × 5 ½ in (20 × 9 × 14 cm)
- Weight: approximately 20 oz
- Earthenware, food-safe glaze inside and out
- Lift-off lid formed by the stove kettle
- Modelled tea towel, rail and enamel pot, hand-painted
Hand wash only, in warm water with a soft cloth. No dishwasher and no long soak — the glaze is food-safe but the hand-painted detail does not enjoy detergent, and the front rail is the most fragile part of the piece. Full guidance is on Care & Materials.