When a China teapot or coffeepot manifests itself as a mental construct it usually means that residual emotional energy from the craftsmen who made it is being channelled through the pot and received by its owner. The particular emotion usually channelled by commercially made ceramic-ware is that of frustration, since most workers in ceramics factories are frustrated artists who would much rather be doing something more creative than pouring slips into moulds and painting the very same design over and over again.

The only way to free oneself of visions of Chinaware is to sell the offending piece to an antique dealer and purchase a genuine one-of-a-kind pot made by an independent local artist using nothing but a potter's wheel and his own two hands.