Round Teapot, Iron

A round teapot that brews about 500 ml, three or four cups. There is no basket to lose or wash separately: the strainer is a patch of holes in the wall behind the spout, so the leaves stay in the pot and it rinses out in one piece.

Because the strainer is part of the pot, very fine tea (rooibos, broken leaf, tea dust) will pass through and leave a little sediment in the cup; for those, the Brewing Mug and its basket do a better job. The handle stays comfortable to hold, but the lid knob gets hot, so lift it with a cloth when the pot is full.

Iron is a glossy near-black that turns rust brown wherever it thins, on rims, edges and handles; how much rust shows varies from piece to piece. Hard-water marks show on it more than on the paler glazes, so dry it after washing.

Specification

• Glaze: Iron (glossy brown-black, rust at the rims)
• Capacity: 600 ml (20 fl oz) to the brim, about 500 ml of tea with the lid on, enough for three or four of our Tea Cups
• Size: approx. 12 cm across the body, 18 cm from spout to handle, 11 cm tall with lid (4.7 × 7.1 × 4.3 in)
• Strainer: built into the pot, about 20 holes of roughly 2 mm in the wall behind the spout
• Lid: inset, with a small knob and a steam hole
• Weight: approx. 0.85 kg (1.9 lb)
• Material: stoneware, glazed inside and out, with a bare clay foot
• Glaze safety: lead-free. Applied by dipping, so the glaze line at the foot is uneven and differs from piece to piece
• Dishwasher safe (top rack) and microwave safe; not for stovetop, oven or freezer
• Dispatched from Hong Kong within 2 to 4 business days

Care. Rinse after use and let the piece dry before you put it away; the bare clay foot darkens a little when wet and dries back. Top-rack dishwasher use is fine, but washing by hand keeps the glaze looking newer for longer. Microwave safe. Keep it off the stovetop, out of the oven and out of the freezer, and avoid shocking it: do not pour boiling water into a piece that has just come out of the fridge. More on Care & Materials.