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The eccentric teapot, four hundred years of invention, Garth Clark

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The eccentric teapot, four hundred years of invention, Garth Clark

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 116) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The eccentric teapot

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

18815381

Responsibility statement

Garth Clark

Sub title

four hundred years of invention

Summary

"This ... book introduces us to some of the most sublime, outrageous and exotic teapots ever to grace a Mad Hatter's tea party. The designers of these idiosyncratic vessels have fully explored the ceremonial significance, spiritual associations, and formal complexities of teapots and tea-drinking, but they have given the results a distinctly eccentric spin. Both comfortingly familiar and utterly peculiar, this ... gallery of teapots includes portrait teapots of Oscar Wilde, Brooke Shields, and Queen Elizabeth; teapots representing animals, vegetables and the Three Mile island cooling towers; and teapots so far removed from the concerns of function that they resemble nothing so much as drawings of teapots. The form of this simple object has fueled the creative genius of art, craft, and industry toward ends as diverse as pure aesthetics, perfect utility, lighthearted whimsy and political satire."--Book jacket

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