Wouldn't then...
... it be a failure as a design?
Regardless of aesthetics, if you can't use the thing without risk of personal injury, it seems to me that it does not function. I would call that a design fail.
Or, you could simply change the name from Sapper tea pot to Sapper sculpture and enjoy it as an artwork. Maybe it succeeds more as a work of art than a functional object?
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