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United Kingdom: the teapot in all its forms
To enjoy tea, the teapot remains the essential and indispensable accessory. An island is even dedicated to this emblematic object, where a real museum has more than 8,000 of them.
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To enjoy tea, the teapot remains the essential and indispensable accessory. An island is even dedicated to this emblematic object, where a real museum has more than 8,000 of them.
When it’s tea time, the teapot is a must-have for purists. Tea lovers have a pilgrimage site, Teapot Island (“the teapot island”), a museum in southern England that has 8,500 teapots. Amidst this 40-year collection, it’s hard not to get lost, even for the museum’s owner. In 2014, King Charles III and Queen Camilla got lost in the maze. “They are time capsules, (…) like a snapshot of people’s thinking at the time”explains Luke Blazye, museum manager “Teapot Island”.
At a craft manufacturer in the east of the country, teapots have been handmade for 45 years. More than 7,000 extravagant teapots come out of the workshop and seduce beyond the realm of tea. “The Jane Austen teapot is very popular”says Valerie Baldry, manager and director of the store “Carters of Suffolk”. No one says whether tea is better in a toilet bowl-shaped teapot, but you can be sure that you’ll enjoy a touch of British madness with every sip.