According to Dr Libby Horner Brangwyn produced over 240 designs for furniture (not all of which were made) and numerous designs for carpets, ceramics, metalwork and glass. The guidelines he set himself were an adaptation of Puginian and Arts and Crafts ideals:

fitness of form to function

excellent craftsmanship

suitability of material to article

absence of applied ornament disguising structure

elimination of unnecessary moulding

Apart from specific interior design commissions, Brangwyn designed furniture for the firms J S Henry and Norman and Stacey and paul Turpin made individual items for the artist.

Brangwyn was passionate about ‘pots’, as he termed them – he collected Persian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceramics and such items appear endlessly in his oils, watercolours and murals. He collaborated with Royal Doulton, Ashtead Potters, Foley Pottery and produced a design for Clarice Cliff’s Bizarre range at A J Wilkinson in 1934. His activity as a ceramics designer was poorly documented until the discovery at the turn of this century of several original designs, including this one, in the collection of Edgar Peacock, son of Brangwyn's housekeeper and hier Lizzie Peacock.