The Beauty of Teapots
Sandra Wilson
As an on line browser and shopper, you will find getting the perfect teapot for yourself is an easy, yet at the same time difficult, task. You will find it simple because you just have to perform a google or yahoo search to locate many pages of teapots to look at. The difficulty will come in choosing just one or two pots to call your own.
Not only are there so many different types of teapots to choose from, there are all the varied things that can be added. Many of them come with, or can use, the very many different types of add-ons such as infusers, strainers, timers, thermometers, handles and bases which can be removed, and so on. It can get very confusing for the a novice tea drinker to know just what she should get.
But even with just the teapots themselves, you will find an almost endless variety of ways to choose a pot. You can start with the what the pots are made from such as glass or metal. There are clay teapots made from whatever clay is local to the pot maker such as the Yxing teapots of China. You also have beautiful glazed and painted porcelain pots. The material you choose may depend on the tea you drink.
When looking for a tea pot, perhaps the first thing you will notice is all the different shapes they come in. You can find short and tall pots. You can find strange ones made to look like some animal or plant or even a car or plane. If it can be formed to hold water and tea leaves, you will probably find the shape somewhere that you desire.
If you have a decor you wish to match, you will find that color of teapot somewhere. Just about any color or color combination can be found. If nothing else, there is always the basic black of the cast iron Japanese tetsubin or a basic white glazed pot.
And if you want to find yourself a pot from a certain region in the world, you just might be able to locate one. There are pots from Great Britain and Europe. There are teapots from Japan and from China. Thousands are made in the US every year as well. It's just one more thing to consider when thinking about buying a teapot.
Not only has geography left its mark upon the humble, or not-so-humble, teapot. Each era throughout time has left its trace as well. Indeed some believe that the first teapots in Europe were not from China but instead were influenced by the Moorish coffee pots. There were the oval shaped ones of the late 1700s and the drum shapes just before the Napoleonic Wars. Even modernism of the last century impacted the shape of teapots. Whatever your taste, there is a teapot for you.
What it comes down to in the end could be the tea you choose to drink. Each tea could be best served with a special type of teapot, though a glass one should do for most cases because of the nature of glass. It allows you to see the tea as it steeps as well which could be quite interesting if you use one of the tea flowers. At any rate, choosing a teapot, you may ultimately find, is simply choosing one that is pleasing to your tastes (pun intended).
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