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Re: Is this an old teapot?
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2012, 06:55:49 pm »
9 1/4" This pot is much more ornate.
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Re: Is this an old teapot?
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2012, 07:22:03 pm »
I lookked at several examples of this period and it seems that most all had the lower spout !!  Very odd that the spout being placed higher is a later evolution in tea pots !! 
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Re: Is this an old teapot?
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2012, 07:33:43 pm »
I must be out to lunch. You mean the fact that it looks like an oil can? I don't understand. Is this spout different? The other spout is longer? Just not getting it. Knock a little harder. ;D
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Re: Is this an old teapot?
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2012, 09:41:29 am »
LOL !! Yes sort of like an oil can !! Later tea pots that I have had, the spout was placed higher on the body of the pot rather than lower !! That way the tea was poured from the top rather than the bottom where the tea leaves would have settled !!
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Re: Is this an old teapot?
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2012, 07:23:38 pm »
yepper, older ones were at bottom and newer spouts were raised to hold "leaves/grinds/sediment" at bottom.
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