Les Comptoirs Richard Glass Teapot, watercolor, 9" x 11 1/2"
Last October in Paris I bought a glass teapot in Galerie Lafayette. Then I left it in the hotel, thinking it was too fragile to bring home.
This trip, the first day at Les Comptoirs Richard I saw another glass teapot. It called my name from the window. YOU are mine and you are coming home with me.
On Sunday I went to the NY Coffee and Tea Festival
The show was loaded with glass teapots.
This glass teapot looks like it's heated on hot pebbles...
NOT. The pebbles are inside the teapot. The Tea Gallery on 131 Allen street did a demonstration making pue-erhs tea.The outside of the pot is heated 1st with hot water, almost annointing it.
This special pot is called a Yixing teapot (pronounced ee-shing). The unique purple/red clay is from the Jiangsu province. You never wash this tiny pot. And after numerous brewings, a layer of tea sediment forms in the interior and eventually you are brewing tea within tea.Pour in enough water to wet the tea leaves down, and let sit for 3 long breaths...
It makes perfect sense if you're selling tea, to brew it in a glass teapot so everyone can see it at the Tay Tea stand.
And they're so pretty. Fun to paint too. Globe Amaranth Jasmine tea is brewing and it's flower blossoms inside the pot.
After the show I went to ABC Carpet to get some chocolate at Michel Cluizel, but all I saw were glass teapots.More on the show tomorrow...
