Why, thank you, Thompson! The teapots are 'gracious', even if they reside in usually less-than-gracious surroundings.
And it is nice to meet someone else who has the proper attitude toward tea bags! (I have a couple times won bets that I could find a cup of tea bag tea among 10 cups of properly steeped loose tea. Once you get the taste buds calibrated, that paper taste is obvious.)