The item was too expensive for me to put it in the excellent category -…

Stylish item, which is now on display rather than in use. By a combination of accidents, we acquired a total of three new ( and useful) tea-pots over the Xmas - New Year period, so this Villeroy and Boch one (which was surely the most expensive by a substantail margin!) has found itself in the collector's item category - and has only been used once.