Cluck, cluck, cluck
Three fat hens are stacked one atop the other, in this upright flock. Top one’s for sugar lumps, next comes the creamer, and on the bottom, why, it’s the pot for tea. Made by Biscuit, this poultry-pottery threesome is called Good Cluck.
Cost: $19.95
Anthropologie; anthropologie.com for stores
I see tea
The art of making tea unfolds before your eyes with this all-glass pot that comes with its own infuser. The infuser (think something like a sieve that tucks inside the spout) lets you pour without getting a mouth full of little tea bits. You might say it leaves the leaves behind.
Cost: $17.99
Cost Plus World Market; worldmarket.com
It’s Jolly, all right
This one pours on the charm, with its hand-painted posies and the nifty handle that makes it hardly a ho-hum pot. The Jolly Pot is from China, birthplace of tea. Lives up to its name, don’t you think? Makes us want to clear our desks, and ring the teabell.
Cost: $29.95
Anthropologie; anthropologie.com for stores
Dot the tea, and cross the i’s?
The Mad Hatter might have had at this impeccably British pot. Made in Stoke-on-Trent, England, by Emma Bridgewater, an oh-so-British pottery-maker, it’s hand-decorated and just one of a vast polka-dotted line, which even includes matching paper goods, should you decide to go spotty at your next tea party. Cost: $110
Dinner At Eight; 847-251-8380; dinnerateight.net
Leave it to the French
This beauty, all white porcelain and stainless steel, has the cozy built right in. That’s right, just beneath the shiny steel cover is a felt cozy to keep your tea just the temp you like it. The French Salam Teapot is made by Guy Degrenne of France.
Cost: $120 for 4-cup; $140 for 6-cup
P.O.S.H.; 312-280-1602; poshchicago.com
