Gracious Entertaining: Eight Beautiful Glass Teapots

Adele 27-Ounce Teapot, $49.99 at BonJour

We love to finish an evening meal with a pot of ginger tea, masala chai, or a tisane of herbs or lemongrass. Our favorite teapot for the last sort of tea is a glass teapot: we like the visible motion of herbs floating gently in the hot water. Here's a look at some glass teapots that would look lovely gracing a table this holiday season.

Many of these are from BonJour's new line of glass teapots; others are from teaware favorites like Adagio and Bodum.

TOP ROW
• 1 Adele 27-Ounce Teapot, $49.99 at BonJour
• 2 Simone 27-Ounce Teapot, $49.99 at BonJour
• 3 Bodum The de Chine 34-Ounce Glass Teapot, $30 at Amazon
• 4 Celeste 27-Ounce Teapot with Creamer and Sugar, $59.99 at BonJour
• 5 4-piece Dorado Glass Teapot w/ Strainer & Warmer, $32.99 at Overstock

BOTTOM ROW
• 6 Harmony 35-Ounce Teapot, $39.99 at BonJour
• 7 Petit 17-Ounce Teapot, $24 at Adagio
• 8 Zen 42-Ounce Teapot, $49.99 at BonJour

Do you ever use a glass teapot?

(Images: BonJour/Meyer; Bodum via Amazon; Adagio; Overstock)

Comments (8)

I wish I had never seen this post...now I feel like I desperately need a glass teapot. sigh.

We bought the Bodum one for my mom for her birthday one year and she loves it. The basket is big enough to let looseleaf tea really bloom nicely and in a pinch you can stick it in the top rack of the dishwasher.

Very pretty. Does anyone know how well these teapots insulate heat?

I have the bodum one and it's perfect. The one thing you do have to be careful about is when the little particles of tea get stuck in the holes of the diffuser. Takes some scrubbing but they do come out!

re: Slow Lorus's question. They're not something you'd want to fill and then put smack dab in the palm of your hand, but the handle stays cool enough to pour for the bodum (can't speak for the others). I can also touch the lid to hold it on while pouring and don't consider myself to have uber tough fingers. Hope that helps.

We have the small glass teapot from World Market (just google their site and search for glass teapot). It's perfect for two cups and stays nicely hot for quite a while. I think it's the spout shape that helps. Perfect little thing, and it was only $5! No problems with stuck tealeaves or anything like that and the handle stays cool.

I have the Bodum one, and (like Kay) I've found that bits of tea get stuck in the diffuser. It doesn't have holes, but rather long, thin slits, which I think is part of the problem.

I guess I'm more impatient than she is - I found cleaning it to be incredibly frustrating, so now I just use it for making fresh infusions (mint, lemon balm, etc.), because the fresh herb leaves are too large to get stuck in there.