Antique Vintage Pottery Porcelain Unusual Teapots Tea Pots / Scarce Book

Description

”This delightful book introduces us to some of the most sublime, outrageous, and exotic teapots ever to grace a Mad Hatter’s tea party.”
THE ECCENTRIC TEAPOT – FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF INNOVATION
by Garth Clark, Abbeville Press, NY,1989.
“Both comfortably familiar and utterly peculiar, this fanciful, provocative, and intriguing gallery of teapots includes portrait teapots of Oscar Wilde, Brooke shields, and Queen Elizabeth; teapots impersonating 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.”  If you are a collector of teapots, you will enjoy adding this fanciful book to your permanent reference library.
10.3” x 9.3” hardback with dust cover in protective plastic sleeve in very good condition.  120 pages.
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