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A Riddle: What is fat and round, 300 years old, used as ballast for trans-oceanic voyages, heavily used and still considered to be beautiful by the world?
Answer: The teapot.
Does it matter that there is some debate about the origin of this amazing vessel with a very long "shelf-life"? Some think that the teapot was originated at Yixing, China and brought to Europe by the Portuguese. Others believe that what was meant to be a Chinese wine container was mistaken for a tea server in England (because it was packed in loose tea leaves) and served as the precursor for the globular teapot. Still other scholars believe that since the Chinese brewed their tea directly in cups, the teapot would not have originated there, but instead traces its ancestry to the Islamic coffee pot.
But wherever it originated, it has always fashionably evolved.
The Dutch brought Chinese tea sets to Europe, and the early trend was to imitate the Asian china using a decorated, earthenware pottery known as "faience." But in 1710, the humble beginning of the teapot was drastically elevated when craftsmen in Germany were able to produce porcelain as high in quality as the Chinese product. As with all discoveries, imitators all over the continent picked up on the porcelain-making bonanza.
Porcelain teapots started being manufactured all over Europe, and they were not just round, functional, potbellied items anymore. (Who said, "I'm a little teapot, short and stout?) Some of the teapots were pear shaped, or in "fantasy" shapes of animals, birds, or dragons. As the continent grew more industrialized and wealthier, more people were able to emulate the aristocratic tea traditions and the demand for teapots grew.
The teapot gets even classier when in the 1730's, tea sets began to be manufactured in silver. As fashionable as ever, and still as functional as ever, in the 1780'a teapots began to flaunt pretty little feet in order to keep their heat from burning the tabletops. Shapes included the globular, the pear-shaped, the animal-shaped, the oval, and the new straight-sided pot, along with a short-lived drum-shaped pot.
Early in the 19th century, the form of the teapot fused with the fantastical. The more elaborate and artistic, the more highly valued it was. All previous styles were present in the marketplace.
A century later, tired of the elaborate, consumers brought teapots got back to their original form and function buying more simplistic designs and shapes. Teapot fashion progressed through the Art Deco movement of the 1930's and, after World War II, began the move back toward function in the 1960's.
Teapots, like women's clothing, are now available in many shapes, sizes, styles, and materials. But the versatility and functionality of this simple object has not changed over time.
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From The Analysis Of Market Demand, Exports Of Chinese Ceramics
German Antique Porcelain and coffee with Zouqiao. In porcelain, the coffee than wine with good sales in Germany the majority of consumers prefer elegant color; pairs of porcelain art in general prefer crisp, elegant, artistic high, like the shape of small animals; in love all kinds of fine porcelain vase long flat belly bottle; part of the intellectual class, interested in primitive art porcelain, antique porcelain and therefore have better sales.
Germany has very strict restrictions on the amount of lead leaching like underglaze color. Merchants on the proposed design more oriental flavor, such as a good porcelain carving figures, sales would be good.
High levels of lead and cadmium French porcelain unmarketable. French imports from China, ceramic (except porcelain furnishings) must apply for a permit. In France, the horse a symbol of happiness, Peacock says there is bad bird. In addition, the French do not like the yellow and green flowers, the elephant nose down not considered unlucky. In France, consumers like China's exports vase table lamp, to 6 inches to 18 inches the best selling products. The French market for counterfeit European-style figures, animals, flower and bird designs more optimistic about the porcelain, ceramic animal shaped small size than large size of merchantability, high level of lead cadmium porcelain unmarketable.
Spain's preference for oriental flower face. Spain porcelain there is no strict lead content restrictions. The businessman reflect my tea, coffee and a matching method is more suitable for the use of Spanish customs, but at the lack of surface features. They requested to reflect the characteristics of oriental products, such as the East pavilions, such as dragon and phoenix patterns. Spain imported porcelain levied according to weight, light weight, the tax on the light.
British art pottery strong demand. Ceramics, most of the UK by 18, 21 occupied by tea, a very small part of the teapot, cup and saucer types. Consumers porcelain white, sleek, full of oriental ethnic products appreciate. British imports ceramic leaded restrictions.
In addition to imports of British art of porcelain, but also import large quantities of art pottery, I enterprises such as development of new products in this area would be promising.
Italian love Yixing clay pots. In which the features of figures, flowers relatively good sales, landscape design second, bottle gourd vases and the Quartet are more popular. Italian people like duck pattern, do not like the black and chrysanthemum pattern. Art porcelain statue of a woman curled little finger can not stand alone, said such a move indecent. Yixing clay pot a bit better sales, but the vine, do not put the metal and plastic. Italy, the lead content of products is very strict inspection.
Australian pop iron porcelain and stone ware. I have a smaller proportion of Australian exports of ceramic, but great potential, especially in certain sales of ceramic art. Australia reflection of my ceramics are: quality, not up, cup and saucer flowers the color uneven surface can not be allocated; packaging is not enough known, cardboard boxes too heavy, the damage rate is high; some products unsafe amounts of lead; delivery is not enough a timely manner, and often miss the season.
Australian market in recent years popular iron porcelain and hard porcelain, ceramic goods in total imports accounted for around 50%, is still developing. These two kinds of porcelain with me Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and other places similar to brown glazed pottery, you can export to trial.
Singapore's strict control of sales narrow. I am in Singapore, the sale of porcelain family-oriented, while the restaurants and other catering industry due to restrictions on Singapore's Health Act, multi-use plastic utensils. Singapore's ceramic should not exceed the amount of lead leaching 7PPM. In addition, crack broken pottery are disabled, once discovered, in addition to prohibiting the use, there will also be fined a possibility.
Japan favored the old porcelain new packaging. Japanese people like to use porcelain summer, winter, like to use pottery, pottery due to winter a warm feeling. Japan, the average family, restaurants, hotels, meals prefer to use ceramic tea sets, flower pots, bottles, cans and so on are all one color glaze, such as gray glaze, are red, kiln and so on. Product specifications small, teapot 4 inches -5 inches required; generally straight to, not like the Ti Liang's; spout like down.
Japanese like to Distressed pottery works of art. Japanese companies suggested that I should export more of its old porcelain, coupled with advanced packaging, can also be sold at high prices shatterproof. Japan, like crane, turtle pattern, there is the meaning of longevity. Tea package, to avoid the "four," this figure, the Japanese do not think that unlucky.
Canada requires quality and cheap products. Sales to the Canadian market in porcelain art porcelain majority, sculpture class to figure mainly based containers like vases. Chinese products to open the Canadian market, it is necessary to improve quality, and second, to lower export prices. Canada requested color elegant porcelain design to the simplicity of background lined bright green, MEI, gold, peacock blue and other design patterns as well, the Canadian dollar price of 30-40 each, beautifully packaged, suitable for gifts.
U.S. demands crisp elegant product designs. The United States is the largest international ceramic market, at present our products in the U.S. market share is not high, but the development has great potential to improve the quality of products as long as I step up publicity, sales of promising post-WTO. A person with a major U.S. marketing of the five, four of 20 with eight personal use of the 45, 92 large set of tea; coffee is also better pin; screen required light is simple and elegant lines clean and clear.
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