The Teapot

A teapot is about the most difficult article a potter is called upon to make. In comparison with a vase of equial size, it requires in additiona, a lid, a handle, a sprout and perforations to retain tea leaves

A Potter's Book, Bernard Leach, 1940

I took a porcelain teapot workshop last month and several weeks later, I'm still thinking about the teapot. As an aspiring ceramacist who does not throw well, the teapot was not an object deemed within my capabilities to throw. The teapot is also an object that I have loved for years. Its beauty lies in the different parts of it coming together to form one shape, with every component an important feature - to hold, to pour, to contain, to cover.

Like coffee and cigarettes, tea making and drinking becomes a time in space to contemplate, think and ponder. This it the first teapot that I attempted to make and for the remaining year, I have decided that I will put my mind into throwing teapots.