Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on ~ Billy Connolly.
I've found a brief interest in teapots after an even briefer venture around T2: tea shop (and by brief I mean around an hour or so). Searching for a cast iron teapot, because I'm a klutz and porcelain, glass or bone china would not last a week with me. I've ended up with a range of visually appealing and disturbing teapots to share:
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Tea stays warm-er with its own little scarf [so cute, but the spout(s) are in a bad place]
There's heaps of animal teapots around, this white elephant is one of the simplest.
Because of the Chinese origins of tea, there are LOADS of dragon teapots around
What I have found with most teapots is that Nature plays a greater role in the creative designs of a pot, I was particularly intrigued with this one.
Confuse your friends, family and neighbours with this spout-handle combination
Or boggle minds with the bagel/doughnut ring teapots
For the completely insane, alien fanatic in your family - watch them freak out while you pour them tea out of your "very normal" teapot. Your conversation should take on the form of the following: "I don't know what you're talking about, this is just a normal white teapot. There's no alien and I don't know why you're carrying on about a spacecraft. Have some tea - no, this is chamomile tea, not alien goop or whatever-you-call-it... Have you been smoking something?"
This one is called "Lightening teapot" - I personally can see the likeness of a cat's faceless head
For the lazy! Double spouted teapot with matching teacups!
Lotus bulb and leaves - very very cool
Twisted bamboo teapot! I would have walked past it or thrown it in the fire before realising it was a teapot.
This is another bamboo teapot that just appealed to me more than the standard round, white porcelain teapot.
Disturbing dog penis tea anyone??
A swan... if it were a white swan you couldn't get much more British high-tea than that.
Funny, violent and unique - Ned Kelly would be proud!
Genuine silver and gold teapot with diamonds - if you want to drip style, of course.
CRACKED TEAPOT! Oh wait, it's meant to look like that.
I found these to be off-putting, I don't particularly want tea from the feet of rotund women. There is another pudgy lady dressed as a belly-dancing wonder, but she was wearing less and it was more disturbing to the eyes.
There is a series of furniture-based teapots... the bathroom set made me laugh the most.
Knowing that there's a urinal with Hitler's face painted on it, there has to be a teapot! Surely!?! And you'd be right... there is a Hitler teapot!
I LOVE this one in particular! It's a jewel beetle teapot - tea for 1 only.
One of the coolest ocean-themed teapots ever! The difficulty is not simply figuring out which tentacle is the spout, it's also keeping the famished octopus away from your salt and pepper shaker crabs!
I'm unsure how practical this teapot is... but I know I would not be making tea in the dark.
This is a pig's skull... with boar hair tea cozy - designed by Wieki Somers.
I've found a brief interest in teapots after an even briefer venture around T2: tea shop (and by brief I mean around an hour or so). Searching for a cast iron teapot, because I'm a klutz and porcelain, glass or bone china would not last a week with me. I've ended up with a range of visually appealing and disturbing teapots to share:
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Tea stays warm-er with its own little scarf [so cute, but the spout(s) are in a bad place]
There's heaps of animal teapots around, this white elephant is one of the simplest.
Because of the Chinese origins of tea, there are LOADS of dragon teapots around
What I have found with most teapots is that Nature plays a greater role in the creative designs of a pot, I was particularly intrigued with this one.
Confuse your friends, family and neighbours with this spout-handle combination
Or boggle minds with the bagel/doughnut ring teapots
For the completely insane, alien fanatic in your family - watch them freak out while you pour them tea out of your "very normal" teapot. Your conversation should take on the form of the following: "I don't know what you're talking about, this is just a normal white teapot. There's no alien and I don't know why you're carrying on about a spacecraft. Have some tea - no, this is chamomile tea, not alien goop or whatever-you-call-it... Have you been smoking something?"
This one is called "Lightening teapot" - I personally can see the likeness of a cat's faceless head
For the lazy! Double spouted teapot with matching teacups!
Lotus bulb and leaves - very very cool
Twisted bamboo teapot! I would have walked past it or thrown it in the fire before realising it was a teapot.
This is another bamboo teapot that just appealed to me more than the standard round, white porcelain teapot.
Disturbing dog penis tea anyone??
A swan... if it were a white swan you couldn't get much more British high-tea than that.
Funny, violent and unique - Ned Kelly would be proud!
Genuine silver and gold teapot with diamonds - if you want to drip style, of course.
CRACKED TEAPOT! Oh wait, it's meant to look like that.
I found these to be off-putting, I don't particularly want tea from the feet of rotund women. There is another pudgy lady dressed as a belly-dancing wonder, but she was wearing less and it was more disturbing to the eyes.
There is a series of furniture-based teapots... the bathroom set made me laugh the most.
Knowing that there's a urinal with Hitler's face painted on it, there has to be a teapot! Surely!?! And you'd be right... there is a Hitler teapot!
I LOVE this one in particular! It's a jewel beetle teapot - tea for 1 only.
One of the coolest ocean-themed teapots ever! The difficulty is not simply figuring out which tentacle is the spout, it's also keeping the famished octopus away from your salt and pepper shaker crabs!
I'm unsure how practical this teapot is... but I know I would not be making tea in the dark.
This is a pig's skull... with boar hair tea cozy - designed by Wieki Somers.
