The cube teapot is a teapot whose main purpose was to be used on a ship whereas conventional curved teapots would roll over when the ship rocked from side to side. The cube shape of the teapot would stabilise it and it wouldn't roll over and scald the person making the drink.
Read more about Cube Teapot: Invention, Use, Recent Studies
Famous quotes containing the word teapot:
“Miss Ghote ... hadn’t the slightest intention of sitting passively by and allowing her neighbor the luxury of placing the teapot of her Episcopalian proclivities on her Baptist trivet.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)