Teapot

A tea pot found in Kaohsiung Taiwan.

A teapot is a container used to mix tea leaves with boiling water to make tea. Usually the tea leaves are in a tea bag when the tea leaves are put into the water. The tea can be poured from the teapot into cups.

Further reading

• Steve Woodhead, "The Teapot Book" A.&C. Black, 2005 ISBN 0713660163.
• Robin Emmerson, "British Teapots and Tea Drinking" HMSO, 1992 ISBN 0-11-701509-1
• Garth Clark "The Artful Teapot" Thames and Hudson ISBN 0-500-51045-8
• Edward Bramah "Novelty Teapots" Quiller Press ISBN 1-870948-72-6

Other websites

• A history of teapots Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Sparta Teapot Museum USA Archived 2007-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
• A brief history of teapots from Stoke-on-Trent Museums Archived 2007-11-20 at the Wayback Machine