This is a fun and interesting idea: a viral home-made story about a teapot that turns into a woman and tries to get "home" to China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... useum-film
A teapot escapes the museum...
Now I'm going to have nightmares that my teapots are conscious and are being held by me against their will... But I suppose that that's the point - a light-hearted way to think about some important issues.
So long as there isn't a film where someone tries to liberate my pots by force...
Andrew
So long as there isn't a film where someone tries to liberate my pots by force...
Andrew
Well in our cases the teapots we own have been sold and exported decades and centuries ago
To add a series note, if I am not remembering that wrong antiquities older than 100y are not allowed to leave China anymore, wonder if they'd actually enforce that if you have a teapot in your luggage – likely the customs wouldn't know anyways.

To add a series note, if I am not remembering that wrong antiquities older than 100y are not allowed to leave China anymore, wonder if they'd actually enforce that if you have a teapot in your luggage – likely the customs wouldn't know anyways.
Seems the British museum has had this exact thing happening recently... art pieces being sold by employees.
In Taiwan the most impressive teapot collections are in the hands of private collectors, rather than the palace museum. Good in a way as at least they are being used to make tea.
Some people say that you should talk good to your items if you want to have good use of them. Recently I complained that my handsaw is good for nothing, and an axe cut into my thumb. Be careful what you say about your pots.