The eccentric teapot: four hundred years of invention Tapa dura - 1989

Aurum Press, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Aurum Press, 01/10/1989 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 2.0305 in x 26.1421 in x 23.0964 in.

London: Aurum Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Red lettering on black covers in a black pictorial dust jacket. 9-1/4" X 10-1/4", 120pp.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. Hardcover. VG/VG-, some minor tears/fading at dust jacket edges, interior clean. Black cloth with color-illustrated, glossy dustjacket. 120 pp., 137 bw and color plates. Magazine article on teapots laid in. "Short and stout is the very least of it. Since the advent of tea drinking in China four thousand years ago, the form of the teapot has inspired endlessly imaginative variations--humble, elegant, quirky, and abstract. The investigation of the teapot as an art form in its own right has reached an inventive peak in the last two decades, but a fascination with the ceremony of tea drinking and the objects designed for that ceremony has flourished in both the East and West. This beautiful and delightful book introduces us to some of the most sublime, outrageous, and exotic teapots ever to grace a Mad Hatter's table. The designers of these idiosyncratic vessels have fully explored the ceremonial significance, spiritual associations, and formal complexities of teapots… Leer más