Do you ever wonder about the first teapots and what they were like as you are pouring yourself a cup of tea from your lovely porcelain teapot? Historians aren't 100 percent sure where the teapot originated.

Many people started a teapot collection back when they were a child, and are still adding to it today. Teapots are one of the most popular collectibles, maybe because there are so many different kinds and types of them. And, every sort of teapot is considered collectible by someone, be it a child with her little teapot that is shaped like the candy house in the story of Hansel and Gretel, or the erudite historian with his Japanese Tetsubin teapot from the 19th century that is worth a small fortune.

You may decide the time has come to add a new teapot to your kitchen wares. You will find this project to be easily done in terms of locating site after site with lots of pots to look over. However, choosing from all that are available is what will make this task not so simple.

A tea plant is actually an evergreen tree. The domesticated plant is pruned to bush size and maintained at a height of five feet. Teapots were not immediately used after the introduction of tea leaves. Beginning around 800 CE, tea leaves were hand-rolled, dehydrated, ground into a powder, mixed with salt and shaped into cakes which would be dropped into bowls of hot water to create a thick mixture. The early days of the Ming Dynasty brought popularity to the leaf infusion as we now know it.

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