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March 2003 |
The Artful Teapot is on show at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art until May 25, 2003.
By Alidė Kohlhaas
If you want to clear the winter blahs from your mind, go to the Gardiner
Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto and let yourself be delighted by the color, the whimsy,
the charm and grace of an exhibition of Teapots, big and small. The Artful Teapot is a
show that makes you want to become a tea aficionado, if you are not already one. That not
all of the teapots are actually functional is not the point, but that tea inspires such
wonderful imagination is a sign that it is entrenched in our minds with art - the art of
serving tea, the ceremony of preparing this wonderful brew. My earliest memories of drinking tea is connected with a tea
set my grandfather brought home with him from one of his many tours of the Orient. Made in
Japan, it consisted of the most delicate porcelain I have ever seen. If you lifted the
teacups up to the light, the porcelain was so translucent, you could see through it. We
drank our tea black. I am not sure whether it was China or India tea. For those
distinctions I was too young. Today, I have my own teapot collection, although not nearly
as extensive – by any stretch of the imagination – than that owned by
Californians Gloria and Sonny Kamm. Theirs is in excess of 6,000 pieces, mine a mere 10.
The Gardiner exhibit consists of 260 pieces of the Kamm pots, which ranges from the
simplest to the most extravagant, from . . .
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