Woods

Yuan - new and unusual items

Chocolate cup with lid
3. 75 ins high
(including lid and scr)
cup: 4 ins (top rim),
2.75 ins high (by itself)
lid: 4. 5 ins wide
scr: 6.125 ins

SOLD

Toast rack
6 x 3 ins (base),
3.125 ins high
(middle arch)

£55

Sandwich plate 
12.625 x 5.875 ins

oblong

SOLD

Dinner plate
with gold band
10 ins

A rare and striking variant on the usual blue and white pattern

SOLD

Tiny jug
1.25 ins (top rim)
2.5 ins (spout-handle)
2 ins high

No taller than an ordinary matchbox, this is the only Yuan jug of this size we have seen - a rare item.

SOLD

The miniature jug is shown in the photo R next to a normal-sized small YUAN hexagonal jug (see Hexagonal Yuan page)

Preserve pot and lid
3.25 ins wide (base),
3 ins (top rim),
4 ins high (top of lid)

SOLD

These were made in two sizes - this is the smaller of the two.

Oval dish
10.375 x 6 ins
1 in high

SOLD

 
Cosy Pots

These curiously-shaped tea or coffee pots were made by several companies in the 1920s, including Booths and Pountneys. Woods' Cosy Pots can be found in a large variety of patterns, many designed by Frederick Rhead, although he did not design the shape itself.
 

Medium Cosy Pot
4.125 ins (base),
7 ins high (top of spout)

Impressed 1 1/2 pints

The mark features the BURSLEY WARE backstamp - a subsidiary of Woods set up in 1919 and based at the adjacent Crown Pottery.

SOLD

Their unique feature is the patented lid, designed by Edmund Abram in 1921. Advertising material of the period described Cosy Pots thus:

"The only perfect dripless teapot - tea without leaves, coffee without grounds, lemonade without pips, a lid that cannot slip".

They were manufactured in at least three sizes - the smallest one shown left is in Woods' coloured CANTON pattern. Please click here for more CANTON items.

See also the Woods Mayfair page for an example of the largest size Cosy Pot.