"Modelling" Classic Design

My design brief included that the teapot should have a classic, "British" design. In order to understand what this means, I attempted to "model" popular conceptualisations of what a teapot is supposed to look like by asking people around me to draw a teapot. The slide show below shows examples of teapots that people drew for me. A synthesis of all these sketches then fed into the eventual design of my teapot. One of the most obvious feature that all drawings had in common was the round, almost spherical body of the teapot.