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Author: Garth Clark
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Category: Book

List Price: ~~$29.95~~
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1078909

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 9.3 x 0.6

ISBN: 089659923X
Dewey Decimal Number: 738.2
EAN: 9780896599239

Publication Date: June 1989
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Excellent look at the tradition of teapots! November 21, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a fun picture book and an informative volume--as an art lover and a seller of YiXing teapots, I found all of the images inspirational. It's wonderful to see examples of people thinking "outside of the box!"

5 out of 5 stars

The Eccentric Teapot is hilarious! May 31, 2000
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

For over 4,000 years tea drinking as been a social custom starting in China where elegant ceremonies have slowly evolved. The forms of the teapot have been endlessly imaginative; from humble to elegant; quirky to abstract. The designs of teapots have long flourished in both Eastern & Western cultures. This book celebrates some of the more sublime, outrageous & exotic teapots. Both comfortingly familiar & utterly peculiar, this fanciful, provocative & intriguing gallery includes portrait pots of Brooke Shields & Queen Elizabeth; teapots impersonate animals, vegetables & fruit. Teapots so far removed from steeping tea that they resemble drawings of themselves. Some pots are quite ugly! Still a hilarious & fascinating look at what artists have done to the humble teapot. END

4 out of 5 stars

The bellhop teapot on the cover is available for sale. March 3, 1998
32 out of 32 found this review helpful

I purchased "The Eccentric Teapot : Four Hundred Years of Invention by Garth Clark for my wife who collects teapots. Her collection is limited to handmade signed-by-the-artist teapots and teapots of unique (you could call eccentric) designs. I gave her the book Christmas morning. Throughout the day she briefly skimmed the photographs and histories of truly unusual teapots. Then after dinner I gave her one more present that was "forgotten" in the morning unwrapping rush. She was DELIGHTED to see that I had given her an exact replica of the bellhop teapot pictured on the cover! What a great way to top an already impressive gift for the teapot collector! She now displays the book and teapot together. I bought the teapot from the CIRCA Catalog. (800) 755-0403. I haven't seen the teapot in the catalog recently, so I don't know if it's still available.

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