A teapot escapes the museum...

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Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:33 pm

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
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Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:02 pm

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...

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Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:05 pm

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.
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Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:14 pm

When I first read this post, I thought the pot had "escaped" the museum with the help of a light-fingered teapot enthusiast. :) Anthropomorphic pots that want to leave my tiny collection are much weirder and scarier.
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Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:39 pm

GaoShan wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:14 pm
When I first read this post, I thought the pot had "escaped" the museum with the help of a light-fingered teapot enthusiast. :) Anthropomorphic pots that want to leave my tiny collection are much weirder and scarier.
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.
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Thu Sep 21, 2023 12:24 am

Andrew S wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:02 pm
Now I'm going to have nightmares that my teapots are conscious
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.
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