5/19/19: Annette Corcoran has had many artistic careers, but her love of clay and pottery has been her deepest and most abiding. After graduating with an art degree in 1952 from U.C. Berkeley, she spent 16 years working as a commercial artist, followed by a stint designing greeting cards. It wasn’t until she was 40 years old that she made her first piece of pottery, and she knew she’d found her medium.
Corcoran made a name for herself among the art pottery set with her extravagant, bird-topped (non-functional) teapots. Her subtle Deco influences and her carefully-chosen decorative elements make for beautifully-balanced pieces, and her use of successive layers of underglazes, glazes, and china paints add wonderful depth to her sculptures. It’s no wonder her pieces are included in the collections of art museums around the country like the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Museum of Ceramic Art in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as private collections around the world.
You can check out Annette Corcoran’s beautiful teapots on her website.
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April 4, 2026 at 8:50 am
Dear Donna,
These teapots are simply exquisite and eye-catching!
Thank you. Happy Easter and Happy April to you!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
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April 5, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Aren’t they just magnificent? I love them, too. Happy Easter and Happy (rainy) April!
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April 5, 2026 at 10:03 pm
Dear Donna,
Thank you. In the spirit of Easter, I would like to wish you “Joyeuses Pâques!”, and to share with you my special Easter post entitled “🐥 Easter in Modern Multimedia Perspective 🐰🐣🐇🐤“. You are very welcome to enjoy some eye-catching graphics and animations plus more pertinent information there. The very stylish and highly multifaceted post can be accessed directly at
This said post examines Easter in great detail. It also features many photos of sumptuous Polish cuisines for the special occasion. One of my best friends is Polish, and she had made the hearty dish of Golobki, which is a cabbage roll with meat, rice and tomatoes, served with thick tomato sauce. I remember that the last step is her putting the dish in an oven for about 20 minutes.
May you enjoy the Easter long weekend. Happy Easter to you and your family!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
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April 6, 2026 at 10:40 am
Thank you! I hope you enjoyed your Easter.
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April 6, 2026 at 11:11 am
These are magnificent! My mother was neither an acquirer or collector but she did have some Chinese tea pots that she dearly loved. I have one Chinese tea pot and an English tea pot but mostly rely on my tea kettle and some bags…
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April 7, 2026 at 8:02 am
I am anti-tea. Coffee only. But I am always jealous of the tea accoutrements…
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