The first ceramic Beatrice Wood resolved to make was a teapot. This is a refined example of a wonderfully crafted pot with a generous spout and lip, with a round jug and large handle. 

"In Holland, I had been spellbound by the antique stores that lines the squares, and had spent hours picking out copper and silver and tiles. In Haarlem, I bought six plates with a beautiful lustre glaze. Back in Los Angeles, I decided I wanted a teapot to go with them. Frustrated at being unable to find one anywhere, a young actor friend of mine, Morgan Farley, suggested I take a ceramics class at Hollywood High School and make one myself. The next day I enrolled, expecting to make a teapot in twenty-four hours. I made two plates - both horrors - then modeled two figures, which, for some inexplicable reason, someone bought. Thereupon, with my arrested financial brain, I reasoned that if I continued selling my pieces I might supplement my miserable seventy-three dollars per month income. I became infatuated with clay and glazes, and spent the next three weeks in the library reading back issues of the Ceramic Bulletin Society, hoping some information would sink into my unconscious." - I Shock Myself, p.126