Teapots - an insight into our buying decisions

We are currently working out which products to stock in the run up to Christmas. This is obviously frightfully dull - samples being sent, board games to try out (you can't stock something without playing it first!), jewellery to try on and so on. Everyone working at Literary HQ has a say and our most recent debate has been about teapots. We sell plenty of mugs but would love more literary tableware. Enter the literary teapot:

It's definitely literary. It is also a nice solid piece of porcelain. I think the lid is lovely but we all remain unconvinced. One of our team has an actual allergy to typeface mish-mashing, another of us thinks the combination of hand-drawn design and author photographs is tricky. Matthew has an issue with the reference to '1984' which is the title of the film, not the novel. My personal issue is the lack of female authors - not even one!

Are we being too fussy? What do you think?