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>>17152014
Okay, it kind of depends on if you want to brew tea in a standard western style, like the picture you posted, or if you want to get into gongfu style brewing, ehich involves using a very small brewing vessel and doing a lot of short infusions.
Lots of regulars here do gongfu brewing, so you might use a 100ml teapot or gaiwan, and around 10grams of tea, but you would do 10 short brews in it, and end up drinking a litre of tea. There is some info about it in the pastebin, and you should be able to find good videos on YouTube about it.
For now what im going to recommend in a brew basket from the brand finum, you can get one for about $10 and it lets you western style brew looseleaf tea right in your mug. It is easy to clean, large, and you can even experiment with gongfu brewing without having to get any specialized teaware. It's also always handy to have around for brewing loose herbal teas.
I don't recommend spending money on a fancy teapot unless you know that's how you are always going to brew tea and in general we try to encourage people to spend money on tea instead of teaware. You can get fancy stuff later on when you know exactly what you want.