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Originally made in Germany -- Schott is still around, but I think they stopped making teapots in the early 2000s?

I think the first was a design by Wilhelm Wagenfeld in the 1930s (photo courtesy of MoMA). Does anyone have a Schott pot?

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Tue Jan 11, 2022 8:11 am

Originally made in Germany -- Schott is still around, but I think they stopped making teapots in the early 2000s?

I think the first was a design by Wilhelm Wagenfeld in the 1930s (photo courtesy of MoMA). Does anyone have a Schott pot?

Very interesting information. My ceramic/glass top stove is made by Schott. I didn’t know they made teapot at one point.

I have several different sets of vintage Jenaer Glas tea glasses with metal sleeves. The heat resistant glass is very fine, light and etching top quality, such a pleasure to hold. Whenever I see any glaswerk made by Jenaer (and Loeffelhardt, W. Wagenfeld, Schott Mainz, Saale glas) I snap them up at local antique stores. Jenaer Glas was “ invented by Otto Schott in 1884 in Jena, Germany, where he had established Schott AG with Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiss.[1] Jena glass is a borosilicate which, in early manufacture, contained added aluminum, magnesium, sodium, and zinc. It was a predecessor to other borosilicate glasses which came into wide use in the twentieth century, such as Pyrex.” wiki

Another design, the "Mikado", with a lid with a knob and a different handle shape. Interesting that the box suggests that despite the Japanese name the expected use was to brew sweet Ceylon tea.

(The name is part of a confusing set of splits and mergers related to the Cold War, I think -- at one time there were two separate Schott companies, one in East Germany and one in West Germany, that merged after the fall of the Berlin Wall.)

My mom has one, marked Jena Therm, it might as well be from the 30s. The lid got broken recently, she uses it to water plants in the basement. Super thin laboratory glass, makes me worry of breaking it just by being near to it, but otherwise absolutely delightful to handle. Makes a set with wide shallow cups. (Excuse the crappy photos)

Another model, the Luna. I'm guessing this must have been towards the end of their run, as it has a new filter design.

A 1959 design by Heinrich Löffelhardt, also courtesy of MoMA. Maybe this was the source of the U-shaped handle designs on some of these teapots?