It’s the title of a blog by The Kamm Teapot Foundation where they offer reviews of some of the most interesting teapot artists and exhibitions spotlighting teapots. If you go to their blog site, http://teapotsteapotsteapots.blogspot.com/2006/02/kamm-teapot-foundation.html you will be able to go back through the hundreds of posts already online. I’ll start by saying that the navigation is minimal. The right sidebar will continue to display ten new teapot articles at a time, so you will have no idea how vast the collection of posts is until you start clicking through. The diversity of this collection is also impressive. I’ll give you a few samples.  The Sparta Teapot Museum’s own website is http://www.spartateapotmuseum.org/

Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Morning Refuge, 2009
Polymer clay, wire, thread, card stock
7.75”H x 12.5”W x 5.25” D

Jeff wrote:
“… these teapots grew out of this past years explorations of small sculptural forms for my installation piece “Edensong Reverie”, at the Fuller Craft Museum. Echoes of the base and pot forms can be traced directly to that piece. I wanted to try to capture the same sense of movement and interplay between the various elements. Simultaneously random and harmonious, not unlike a chance encounter on a woodland stroll.”

Queen Victoria Jubilee Teapot

Made to commemorate the 1897 Diamond Jubilee by Copeland Spode.
Sold on eBay 4th June for £90.00 [US $176.85]

One interesting aspect of the reviews on this blog is how some are given amazing detail; others very little. I thought the additional comment of how much this piece sold for on EBay was interesting.And I think that sometimes the craftsmen who stress function in their design are sometimes less appreciated than deserved.

Or, sometimes there are just rare bargains on EBay

Peter Shire

Peter Shire teapot made circa 1983. Sold at auction at Los Angeles Modern Auctions in West Hollywood California for US $1,500.00 June 29th 2008
Estimate:US $1,800.00 - US $2,500.00

“Mystical absurdism, amazing, astounding phenomena on a human scale and what is funny about the way we love and hate industrial things…is what interests me.”
-Peter Shire

Since the 1970’s, Peter Shire (b. 1947) has been working at an intersection. Where craft, fine art, and industrial design collide, he has built his career, drawing freely from each area without taking any of it too seriously. He has had forays into architecture, furniture, and fashion, but he keeps returning to ceramics. Like his home and studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Echo Park, clay is one medium he knows he will never leave.

Adrien Miller

Bodhisattva Teapot

Fine handmade works by Seattle artist Adrien Miller, for peace and presence of mind.
To see more of his teapots visit his Etsy shop.

The Kamm Teapot Collection itself now houses more than 6000 teapots. It is dedicated to the art and history of tea and of the teapot and takes pride in having produced some of the best and most memorable traveling exhibitions from their collected works. It is housed in the Sparta Teapot Museum of Art and Design, Sparta, North Carolina. I’m looking forward to making a pilgrimage in the near future. But I’d also love to hear comments from anyone who has already discovered this Tea Land Treasure.

The managers of the collection do give us one back-room glimpse.

Barbara Fender is helping Mary Douglas, curator of the Sparta Teapot Museum, by unpacking hundreds of boxes that contain the Kamm teapot collection.
A tractor-trailer load—1,600 boxes of padded and packed teapots—arrived in Sparta in May2005 and more arrive in the mail almost every day.

Now, if they just serve an interesting cuppa . . .

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