Brownware Range
This range of brown cookware and kitchen pots has been our main production since 1975.

It is available from the David Mellor Kitchen Shop at 4, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8EE, and from Broughton Crafts at High Street, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 6HB.

These robust pots are mostly undecorated but have strong, handsome shapes and are practical and homely.

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Colander.
pound30.00 - pound40.00
We really enjoy making (and using) these pots. They sit inside the mixing bowls shown below, so you can keep your pasta or vegetable water once you have strained it. Some of our customers use them as fruit bowls and for washing grapes.They come in two sizes.
Sizes: large - 28cms. wide - £40.00, ...small - 24cms. wide - £30.00
Mixing bowl.
pound27.50 - pound38.00
Stable, robust with practical pouring lip and a tipping edge onthe foot. they come in two sizes. the colanders sit inside them should you want to keep strained pasta or vegetable water.
Sizes: large - 28cms. wide - £38.00, ...small - 24cms. wide - £27.50
Cutlery drainer.
pound24.00 - pound28.00
Raised base with drainage holes. Can be supplied with a drip tray. We also make a teaspoon drainer and tray.
Sizes: 14cms. high - £28.00, teaspoon drainer & tray - £24.00
Lemon squeezer.
pound28.00
First designed and made by Joanna over thirty five years ago, the lemon squeezer is attractive and practical. Completely plain or with decoration around the rim, and a pouring lip on the base.
Size: 12cms. wide - £28.00
Storage jars.
pound17.50 - pound105.00
There are four sizes of lidded store jar. The smallest about right for suger or tea, and the largest, the bread crock, big enough for two loaves. We used to see these on the packets and television adverts for muesli.
Sizes: Bread crock - 45cms. high - £105.00, ...large-28cms high - £38.50, ...medium-20cms high - £25.00, ...small-15cms high - £17.50
Utensil jar.
pound21.50
A robust and simple shape. Stable enough to hold long wooden or metal kitchen spoons, strainers, spatulas etc. Plain or with a stamped and roulleted decoration.
Size: 15cms. high. - £21.50
Oval baking dish.
pound21.00 - pound42.00
It was these oval pots of Joannas that first attracted the attention of David Canter at 'Cranks' wholefood restaurant in London in the mid. seventies. They are thrown round, made oval and a base added - a skillful process. They come in three sizes, sometimes plain and sometimes with a decorated rim.
Sizes: large - 30cms.long - £42.00, ...medium - 23cms. long - £28.50, ...small - 13cms. long - £21.00
Flan dish.
pound20.50 - pound31.20
This is a simple round flat bottomed shallow dish. It comes in two sizes, sometimes with a plain rim and sometimes with a decorated rim.
Sizes: large - 30cms. wide - £31.20, ...small - 23cms. wide - £20.50
Casserole.
pound33.00 - pound60.00
The lidded casserole comes in three sizes. It has a flat base and lug handles on either side. Plain, simple and undecorated.
Sizes: large - 4 litre (7pint) - £60.00, ...medium - 2.5 litre (4 pint) - £46.50, ...small - 1.8 litre (3 pint) - £33.00
Butter pot.
pound39.00
Joanna makes the butter pots. Again, they are thrown round, shaped oblong or oval, and then joined onto a separate base. The lid is also thrown round, and then cut to fit the pot. This is a comlpicated process which results in a simple looking, practical pot. It is only made in one size.
Size: butter pot - 250 grams butter - £39.00
Jug.
pound12.00 - pound65.00
We have been making these jugs for thirty years. During this time they have got fatter, thinner, taller etc. but basically it's still the same jug. They come in five useful sizes.
Sizes: extra large -3.25 litre (5.5 pint ) - £65.00, ...large - 2 litre (3.5 pint ) - £35.00, ...medium - 0.6 litre (1 pint ) - £20.00, ... small - 0.3 litre ( 0.5 pint ) - £15.00, ...cream - 0.2 l - £12.00
Plate.
pound11.80 - pound16.20
Our standard plates come in two sizes. They have a plain brown rim and a turned out foot ring. Stacking and fitting into a dishwasher is easy.
Sizes: large - 27cms. wide - £16.20, ...small - 19.5cms wide - £11.80
Salad bowl.
pound27.50 - pound37.50
The salad bowls come in two standard sizes, usually with a flat brown rim. They can, of course, be used for pasta, fruit or car keys.
Sizes: large - 33cms. wide - £37.50, ...small - 27cms. wide - £27.50
Soup bowl, dessert bowl.
pound11.50 - pound13.50
We seem to eat a lot of cereal out of our soup bowls and the dessert bowls are often bought as sugar bowls. Although we make many different sizes of bowl, these have come through as the most useful. As much time is spent turning the generous footring as is spent throwing the pot.
Sizes: soup - 16.5 cms wide - £13.50, ...dessert - 13.5cms wide - £11.50
Teapot.
pound39.00 - pound45.50
The teapot becomes part of ones everyday life. Our brown teapot is practical and easy to live with. It comes in two standard sizes.
Sizes: large - 5 cups - £45.50, ...small - 3 cups - £39.00
The mug.
pound10.50
We have been making this basic mug for thirty years. This one only comes in one size.
Size: mug - 9cms high - £10.50