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this from Bear (Terry Decker) on the sca-cooks list:

"The spouted pot that you are interested in is more properly a teakettle and
seems to appear in the late 17th century.  The timing coincides with the
increased use of tea, which may mean the teakettle was transplanted from
Asia.  You might check Uker's All About Tea, to see if he includes any
history on the teakettle.

"The Kettlehouse, a coach house founded in 1640, uses a teakettle on its
sign, but the original sign for the establishment, a huge kettle, was that
of the village blacksmith.  The website does not state whether it was a
cauldron or a teakettle.

http://www.kettlehouse.co.uk/history.htm

"A rather nice 18th Century teakettle:

http://www.p4a.com/itemsummary/15702.htm  "

So you might call yer wee one an ibrik, "a small pot with a long handle for
boiling coffee.  Some of these had a spout formed into the lip of the pan.
The ibrik was certainly in use across the Middle East by the 16th Century
and came into Europe with the spread of coffee."

My only hope for a spouted pot for heating water being period is a woodcut
"from Pedro de la Vega, Flos Sanctorum, Zaragoza, G. Coci, 1544", though
Bear thinks it might be an oil lamp instead.

A ewer has a spout and a handle, but I have no source indicating it was used
to heat water.

If anyone has a source to show a teapot type device as being period, please
let me know.

Amicalement,
Madelina de Lyndesaye
Canton of Loch Ruadh
Barony of Elfsea
Kingdom of ANSTEORRA!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Isabel Howard [mailto:isabel_howard at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:52 PM
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Ansteorra] Fw: Lampwick, you'll get a plate up yer jam roll!

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...Mind yer own bizness bout me teapot....

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-Isabel Howard