Author: CARTER, M.TINA
Title: Teapots: The Collector's Guide to Selecting, Displaying and Enjoying New and Vintage Teapots
Description: The Apple Press, London. 1994. (ISBN: 185076560X). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 24.3 x 31.5 cm; 0.682 Kg; 80 pages with 200 exclusive photograps of teapots; Used with signs of wear. The interior is in good condition apart from the first few pages that show some yellowing.; The collector's guide to selecting, displaying and enjoying new and vintage teapots, mainly written for newcomers to teapot collecting. This book is illustrated with more than 200 examples from around the world, plus their associated milk jugs and sugar bowls, trays, stands, and tiles. Connoisseurs collect unusual shaped teapots made in ancient China and medieval Japan, classics by Meissen or Wedgwood, or Staffordshire cottagepots. Enthusiasts collect new, affordable, fantasy teapots shaped like storybook or film characters, animals or even food. There are favourite royal commemorative teapots, and the famous Hall China Doughnut, a Georgian silver tea kettle, and a Victorian children's tea service. The largest is a Russian samovar, and the smallest a doll's teapot just one and a half inches high. Detailed coverage is given of figural, floral, china, porcelain, pottery, souvenir, metal and miniature teapots. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 185076560X CERAMICS,PORCELAIN,CHINA,TEAPOTS,POTTERY


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