Philip Poburka on fri 23 aug 02
Improbably...at the rear of a tired mini-mall...found yesterday a little
store as claimed to be Chineese antiques...went in and looked...middle of
the room was empty...along the walls were old chineese perhaps 'Store'
Cabinets, whose doors were sticking badly and hard to open...and...in
them...crammed and stacked in tham...
Oh!
Found many MANY entirely splendid things...much Ceramic...Tea-Pots to die
for...Bowls and Canisters...old...old dirty dusty stuff...tiny ancient paper
labels with minute writeing...many illedgeble...on many of them, as tho'
they once were catalogued or in a collection or something...
And...in this consideration, they intoxicated just by being themselves,
standing alone without any austensible 'context' ...just dusty, crammed into
shelves...grumpy bored clerk...no price-tags...the Pot I liked he tells me
is $150.00...I was so taken with some of the stuff I was in a daze...
My 'favourite': It is white glaze...the kind of 'white' I associate with
some late 18th early 19th Cent English tableware...a certain
'white'...cylindrical...ten or eleven inches tall, maybe 5 1/2 inches
diameter...swan-neck spout curves up and out...long...has thin bronze double
hingeing 'handles'...dirty inside from old tea stains...small lift-out flush
'top' for pouring the water into...one tiny hole for the Tea to go into the
spout...so 'perfect'...so subtle somehow...must hold towards a third of a
gallon...more...
Ohhhhh...wow...
Can anyone recommend a book, or a 'web-site' as might educate me some little
bit as to 'what' I am looking at in terms other than that I am in love with
it?
I wanted to drink Tea all day after that...and now too!...I am
haunted...happily!
I feels like 'mine'...
Maybe it will be!
Thanks,
Phil
Las Vegas
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