Teapot

The teapot is a bulbous, rarely cylindrical vessel made ​​of silver, brass, copper, iron, earthenware, porcelain or glass, prepared the tea, kept warm, can be transported and served. From her "big sister ", the coffee pot, the teapot is distinguished by three special features:

• It is about as wide as high or even wider than high. Thus, the colors and flavors that come out from the infused tea leaves and the inclination may have to stay on the ground more evenly distributed over the entire water than in a slim pot.
• The spout of the teapot is much deeper, often attached at the bottom of the can body to pour concentrated in the lower part of the pot colors and flavors as the first in the drinking vessel can. (When the coffee pot, the spout is set up so that potential coffee grounds from entering the cup. )
• It is incorporated in the control apparatus, which retains the brewed tea leaves during pouring. This can be a perforated closure in the transition from the can body to spout or a conical filter insert, which is hung from the top of the can and extends to the can bottom.

While the first recorded mention of tea in China dated to the year 221 BC ( Teesteuerbescheid ), produced cans of silver and brass diving specifically for the tea until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ) on, to some extent even with attached devices under the pot to heat the water ( samovar ). The hitherto customary tea directly into a drinking cup more of the preparation in a teapot. Due to the increasing tea trade reached the bulbous cans soon to Europe.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, a pear-shaped teapot with s-shaped curved spout, which was introduced along with the green tea by the English in Morocco and their form is in the tea culture in northwest Africa remains a model of most teapots developed in England.

As Serviergefäß teapots are naturally the focus of a panel and are in tableware series often the flagship of the respective designs. So they come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes, purely factual- functional or figurative- cheesy with all variations in between. Teapots are also collector's item and exhibited in museums relevant.