claybair on sat 12 apr 03
Someone contacted me after seeing my teapots online.
They are currently collecting teapots but only want unusual & unique ones.
If you are interested let me know. If you have some online I'll forward the
site to them and they can contact you.
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
Ned Ludd on sat 12 apr 03
Gayle wrote:
>Someone contacted me after seeing my teapots online.
>They are currently collecting teapots but only want unusual & unique ones.
>If you are interested let me know. If you have some online I'll forward the
>site to them and they can contact you.
>
>Gayle Bair
>Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
Hi Gail
Ahem. Are they looking for teapots that actually and indubitably -
Lord bless my soul! - make AND pour tea, and aim to do so very well
even as they give pleasure in use? Functional teapots, in other words.
Or does "unusual and unique" mean that what they really want are
fashionable artifacts that mimic teapots, and certainly won't go so
far as to ever be _used_, save perhaps for crafty ego inflation,
resume enhancement, or comic and dramatic effect? The play, 'Waiting
for Godot'.... I see possibilities there for a fake teapot. Charlie
Chaplin would surely have liked them too. Most all studio pottery
exhibition "teapots" seem to fall into this category.
I say we make these pretzel-brained curators and critics pour piping
hot brew from each and every "teapot" in their shows. Butt naked. No
thongs allowed. That'll teach them TEA.
Harrumph!
Ned, growly after he found an exceptional store in Berkeley,
California, featuring mostly books and meditation related items that
had for sale amongst its gems a 'teapot', presented as functional ...
with the spout ending halfway up.
Alas, immortal Dante, that it is too late to add another chapter to
your Inferno describing the fate in store for such feckless potters!
venpott on sat 12 apr 03
You may want to visit my site and see my teapots they might be " unique
teapots" . . . . they are certainly odd ones.
Thanks
Minerva Chango
http://minervachango.homestead.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "claybair"
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Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 5:16 AM
Subject: Unique teapots wanted
> Someone contacted me after seeing my teapots online.
> They are currently collecting teapots but only want unusual & unique ones.
> If you are interested let me know. If you have some online I'll forward
the
> site to them and they can contact you.
>
> Gayle Bair
> Bainbridge Island, WA
> http://claybair.com
>
>
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claybair on sat 12 apr 03
Sorry Ned... I just am not sure how to reply to your
posting. Regardless of the design my teapots are functional.
I cannot speak for others. Perhaps the teapots you disparagingly
referred to should be called "sculptural teapots".
Come to think of it that may be a very good idea as then the prices
could be quadrupled or more!!!!
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On Behalf Of Ned Ludd
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 8:47 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Unique teapots wanted
Gayle wrote:
>Someone contacted me after seeing my teapots online.
>They are currently collecting teapots but only want unusual & unique ones.
>If you are interested let me know. If you have some online I'll forward the
>site to them and they can contact you.
>
>Gayle Bair
>Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
Hi Gail
Ahem. Are they looking for teapots that actually and indubitably -
Lord bless my soul! - make AND pour tea, and aim to do so very well
even as they give pleasure in use? Functional teapots, in other words.
Or does "unusual and unique" mean that what they really want are
fashionable artifacts that mimic teapots, and certainly won't go so
far as to ever be _used_, save perhaps for crafty ego inflation,
resume enhancement, or comic and dramatic effect? The play, 'Waiting
for Godot'.... I see possibilities there for a fake teapot. Charlie
Chaplin would surely have liked them too. Most all studio pottery
exhibition "teapots" seem to fall into this category.
I say we make these pretzel-brained curators and critics pour piping
hot brew from each and every "teapot" in their shows. Butt naked. No
thongs allowed. That'll teach them TEA.
Harrumph!
Ned, growly after he found an exceptional store in Berkeley,
California, featuring mostly books and meditation related items that
had for sale amongst its gems a 'teapot', presented as functional ...
with the spout ending halfway up.
Alas, immortal Dante, that it is too late to add another chapter to
your Inferno describing the fate in store for such feckless potters!
______
Michelle Lowe on sat 19 apr 03
At 06:40 PM 4/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Sorry Ned... I just am not sure how to reply to your
>posting. Regardless of the design my teapots are functional.
>I cannot speak for others. Perhaps the teapots you disparagingly
>referred to should be called "sculptural teapots".
>Come to think of it that may be a very good idea as then the prices
>could be quadrupled or more!!!!
>
In recent 'teapot' discussion here, friend revealed that an acquaintance had moved from "functional" to "sculptural" or "decorative" teapots, in her work, and the prices she got at least tripled.
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Michelle Lowe potter in the Phoenix desert
http://www.desertdragonpottery.com
Mishy@desertdragonpottery.com
mishlowe@amug.org
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