The Tea at the Bottom of the Teapot
The Director:Lou Maho
Producers:Eddy Matalon and Marc Olivier Louveau
Published by Ojai Film Festival on August 31,2019
link1:The film
#20 I brevetti della cosa
1- The Ornamental design of a kettle
The inventor: Heida L. Thurlow
Current assignee: Lentrade D/b/a Chantal Cookware Corp Lentrade Inc ,USD796246S1,United States
The date of the patent: September 5 2017
The date of the patent: September 5 2017
2- The Universal lid system and methods
Current Assignee Peet's Coffee Inc,US9826849B2,United states
The date of the patent :November 28 2017
link1: The patent of the ornamental design of the kettle
link2: The Patent of the lid system
#27 - Il museo della cosa
The Island Teapot Museum
Located in the middle of Kent in England, this museum opened in 2002 and currently count around 7100 teapots which are exposed in small rooms according to shapes, colours, topics or countries. The 15000£ permanent exhibition of the owner Mrs Blazye entered the Guinness world record in 2004 for being the largest collection in the world but in 2011 it was considered as the second biggest collection in the world as a man in China gathered 30000 teapots. The collection of Mrs Blazye include teapots in the shape of everyone like Princess Diana and Winston Churchill .
The teapots are classified according to subjects such as science-fiction ,politics, sport, transport, celebrities, music and animals .
For instance in the picture above the first row of the shelves contain teapots made by the famous English potter Lorna Baily, the second include some historical buildings, the third show some teapots with american flag quilt patterns and the fourth contain teapots with tropical features.
The shelves in this picture are predominated by flower motifs while the picture below emphasises farm animals teapots.
#18 - In cucina
Teapot in the culinary world
The Moroccan tea recipe
I was inspired by the previous blogs of 2014 and I thought an authentic way to connect the teapot to the culinary world would be to present the recipe of the Moroccan tea. The typical Moroccan tea serving is made with a (Berrad) Moroccan teapot, an ornate tray, and tea glasses and one important step within the preparation method
- Add the green tea in you Berrad (Moroccan teapot)
- Boil the water
- Add ¼ cup of the boiled water to tea to clean it and throw the dark water away
- Fill the Berrad with the boiled water.
- Lower the heat and boil off the tea
- After turning off the heat, add fresh mint and sugar and leave it for 3 minutes .
- Poor up the tea in glasses.
An interesting culinary book: ''The Culinary tea, more than 150 recipes''
Always talking about recipes, when browsing the internet I found a culinary book that exposes around 150 popular recipes with all the ingredients and tips on how to prepare different types of tea.
#25 - La cosa a casa
Teapots at home
Like many cultures, teapot is an important item in the Moroccan culture. Whether taking a cup of tea in the morning or having friends for afternoon tea, the teapot is crucial for all these uses. Serving guests using the teapot is a cherished ritual and tea is prepared in the kitchen and then presented to the visitors in the dinning room. Therefore the kitchen and the dinning room are the places where teapots are usually used.
In addition to their function for brewing tea , the ornate pots are used as a pieces of art and are kept in dinning rooms and traditional salons for decoration purposes.
#30 -La scienza e la tecnica della cosa
Have you ever wondered about the ''Teapot effect''?
When searching for a possible relation between teapots and science, I found an interesting paper dealing with the problem of dribbling teapots. In fact, everyone has experienced the annoying overflowing from the pot spout especially when the tea is poured slowly. Therefore I summarized the main points of this article and I also attached the link to download the full paper.
For centuries scientists have struggled to explain the ''teapot phenomenon''.Some suggested internal vortices in the fluid, others opted for atmospheric pressure as the main factor while other explanations based on the momentum of the fluid tried to find the perfect speed of the flow to avoid the dribbling.
A team of fluid dynamics scientists, C. Duez, C. Ybert, C. Clanet, and L. Bocquet, from the University of Lyon in France have addressed this issue by explaining the main factor of overflowing: a "hydro-capillary" effect that sticks the liquid to the solid surface as it is poured from the spout. The experts emphasised that to avoid this problem one way is to design the lip of the spout very sharp and coat the lip with superphobic materials to repel water from the spout. I reported below some pictures to explain the experiment :
In (a) when water leaves the spout of an (hydrophilic) teapot, the streamline bends and causes the dribbling , and this is worst at a slower flow rate(a').However, when using a superhydrophobic coating the streamline is straight and the dribbling problem is avoided at different flow rates b and b' .
#19 La cosa nell'Arte
''The Crab teapot'' pottery sculpture
Teapots have inspired for centuries artworks in all fields including sculpture and oil painting.
Mitchell Crafton is a contemporary artist who is the author of many creature teapots and one of these artworks is ''The blue crab teapot''. This piece is 2.54 cm wide and 18 cm tall and the legs are made of metal .
The location: Panama City, Florida,
''Still life ,with teapot, cup and fruit'' painting
Another important field predominated by teapots is painting. ''Still life ,with teapot, cup and fruit'' is the achievement of the French Post-Impressionist painter Emile Bernard in 1890 who had artistic friendship with Van Gog . This artwork is currently in Van Gog Museum in Amsterdam.
The author :Emile Bernard
The location: Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
link1:The carb teapot sculpture
link2:Émile Bernard , ''Still life with teapot, cup and fruit'', 1890
#26 - La cosa sui francobolli
Teapots on stamps
Teapots are a popular topic for stamps and this is enjoyable way to learn about cultures and origins of objects because each of the teapots has its name as well as the country of origin on the stamp. Although I found normal that the majority of teapots stamps came from China, I was struck by the sheer number of worldwide stamps available.
link1:The source of pictures
#28 - Il protagonista della cosa
Tokoname Master craftsman : Hokujo Genji Shimuzu
Hokujo Shimizu is one of the most brilliant teapots maker in the state of Tokoname in Japan. His talent won him the title of '' Tokoname Master Craftsman'' in 1991 as well as many awards such as: "Japan Traditional Crafts Art Exhibition''. I attached below one of his favourite teapots.
In the video below , one can watch Shimizu Genji making the Kysu(the Japanese teapot), in his studio in Tokoname.
link2:Hokujo profile
#21 - La cosa nella Musica
The teapot in Music
When looking for teapots in the musical world, I found that they were mainly the subject of popular nursery rhymes and traditional poems for children dating back to the nineteenth century. I have chosen '' I am little teapot'' and '' Polly put the kettle on'''' I'm a little teapot''
''Polly put the kettle on''
link1:I'm little teapot'',Song and Lyrics
link2:Gus Williams ''Popular songs'', teapots
link3:Polly put the kettle on
link4''Polly put the kettle on '' Lyrics
#32 - Le azioni della cosa / con la cosa
The actions of /with the teapot
To boil:
(To boil water in a teapot)
To brew:
( To brew a tea in a teapot)
To contain:
(The teapot contains tea)
( To brew a tea in a teapot)
To contain:
(The teapot contains tea)
To dribble:
(the teapot dribbles)
To drip:
(The teapot drips)
To hold:
(The teapot holds 4 cups of tea)
(the teapot dribbles)
To drip:
(The teapot drips)
To hold:
(The teapot holds 4 cups of tea)
To pour:
( The teapot pours tea)
To scream:
(The teapot screams)
To steep:
(To steep tea leaves in a teapot)
To sweat:
(The teapot sweats drops)
To whistle:
(The teapot whistles)
#29 - I numeri della cosa
The numbers of the teapot
Most of the numbers associated to teapots I found in the web are lot numbers which are an identification assigned to manufactured single pieces. For example, these two Chinese Yixing teapots have each a lot number respectively 1078 and 1434.
In addition to the previous examples ''Utah teapot'' made by the computer designer Martin Newell
is associated with a catalogue number X 398.84.
The Igenix kettle has a capacity of 3.5 litres , therefore 3.5 could also be a teapot number.
The fourth example is the certificate of authenticity which is included with a pot and contains an authenticity number such as 5090.
link1:The source of the pictures
link2:Utah teapot number
link3:Igenix Corded Catering Kettle
link4:The authenticity number
#15 - L'evoluzione futura della cosa
The future evolution of the teapot
Although I already mentioned in the previous sections that the kettle was an innovative version of the teapot, I found some other innovative teapots like the ''Sorapot teapot ''of the American designer Joey Roth. Made of stainless steel and glass, the Sorapot allows the hot water to immerse the whole surfaces of the leaves and ensure that the tea gets the full flavour. I attached below a video explaining how to use a sorapot.
link1:The sorapot
link2:How to use a sorapot#17 - La nuvola dei nomi
The cloud of names related to ''teapot''
When looking for names related to the teapot, I found these beautiful illustrations. The first teapot cloud is predominated by the plants(mint and tea leaves) used to make traditional Chinese infusions, the second cloud deals with the evolution of the teapot over the world, while the third includes some aliments that accompany tea such as sugar and biccie as well as some adjectives for tea like ''cosy'' and ''strong''.
link1:The source of the pictures
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