I
rarely find laypeople genuinely interested in Oriental tea ware, but recently
several of my friends and my own sister surprised me by their curiosity about Chinese
teapots. This post is aimed to fuel their curiosity even further. Last January,
I visited Shanghai Confucian Temple (aka Shanghai Wen Miao) which happens to
have a superb collection of teapots on display. I photographed every piece I truly
liked and left under the impression that I took way too many photographs. Checking
them again this month, made me realise that they all can be crammed into one
blog post. So here they are. Images below show some of the ‘purple sand’ ware
from Yixing.
Images
below show glazed teapots (porcelain, celadon and the like).
Images
below show pitches, jugs or ewers.
Some of
the porcelain tea caddies were exquisite (see images below).
Since
this post is all about teapots I decided to throw in some images of teapots that
got my interest at the Shanghai Museum (images below).
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