not terribly impressed, but it's still nice
I bought this not knowing how well it is made, nor what it is made of, I just wanted it to match my dinnerset. It doesn't look like the craftmanship is all that good but it is hardly noticeable. I speak of the lip. The inside is colored all black while the outside is mostly white. At the lip, at the point where in meets out, the painting is a bit uneven. Maybe I'm just nitpicking. My experience with enamel coated kitchenware is that after years of use it gets chipped. I can't imagine this would happen with a teakettle though, unless you're rough and tend to bang it around. I hope to get some good years of use with this despite the flaws I've seen.