TEAPOTS

I love teapots! They combine the functionality of a vessel with a shape that can be almost anything. A teapot needs the container, a lid, a handle, and a spout. The vessel can resemble anything as long as it has these basic elements.

Because of my passion for teapots, I was invited to the home of a couple with the largest teapot collection in the US. They "only" had a few hundred teapots displayed in their home; the others were in storage and awaiting a new museum in North Carolina. The teapots in their home were artfully and beautifully arranged, and varied from those commissioned by artists purely for art's sake to those that were mass produced and functional. They were all ages, from hundreds of years old to new and contemporary. The materials ran the gamut, from glass and ceramic, to fibers and metal. The collection was fascinating!