Teapots can be so beautiful
yes as long as it is a vessel used for steeping tea leaves, It can have very nice design
I'm very fond of Chinese and Japanese designs.
same here, history of tea in Japan began as early as the 9th century. You can find beautiful teapots in Japan
True, whenever i look at japanese and chinese teapot, they look like antiques.
I also like Yixing clay teapots, which are made from Yixing clay
What is yixing clay?
Yixing
Yixing () is a county-level city with a population of 1.24 million administrated under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware tea pots.
History.
Yixing county was established in 221 BC (Qin Dynasty) with the name of Yangxian (). Between 303 and 310 AD, the local aristocrat Zhou Qi, the eldest son of General Zhou
oxidation, and purchased as loose leaves rather than compressed bricks. At first, the loose leaves would still be ground into a powder and whisked with hot water to produce the finished beverage. By the late 16th century, however, tea connoiseurs were steeping the leaves in hot water in teapots and pouring the tea into teacups. This new way of producing and drinking tea arrived in Japan in the 17th century. Its advocates, most notably the monk Baisao (1675–1763), were opposed to the strict rituals of the traditional Japanese