The Egoist’, world’s most pricey teapot, fails to impress netizens

On Wednesday, the Guinness World Records shared pictures of the teapot on X. While this post raked in hundreds of likes. Many people mocked the elaborateness of the teapot. An X user shared a picture of their regular teapot and wrote, “The tea in my cup this morning will taste same as the one in any…”. Another person jokingly wrote, “Will the tea prepare itself?”.

This is the most valuable teapot in the world.

Owned by the N Sethia Foundation in the UK, the teapot is made from 18-carat yellow gold with cut diamond covering the entire body and a 6.67-carat ruby in the centre.

The teapot's handle is made from fossilised mammoth ivory.

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— Guinness World Records (@GWR) August 9, 2023

The pot’s handle is delicately crafted out of moulded mammoth ivory and its body is made up of 18k yellow gold and parts of gold-plated genuine silver. Its body is embedded with 1,658 brilliant diamonds and 386 authentic Thai and Burmese rubies. Seven years ago on August 9, 2016, the Guinness World Records recognised ‘The Egoist’ as the ‘most valuable teapot’ in the world.

This teapot is part of the N. Sethia Foundation’s “Chitra Collection”, a private collection of historic teaware. As per the Guinness World Records, the Chitra Collection is “the largest collection of tea accessories, with some artefacts dating back to 10th Century BC.”