The shadow of a Spout
The Author: Amanda Cooper
Edition: Penguin, 2015
Number of pages: 304
''Rose Fremont should have been listening to the speech, but instead she was examining her treasure. It was homely thing, the metal teapot, battered and beaten like a raggedy man who has been buffeted about by the elements and fallen on hand times. But like that raggedy man, it had a paste, a purpose and meaning. She turned it over and over in her hands, examining the patina, caressing the dent on its round belly and hugging it to her. There was something about the size of it and the intricacy of the decoration that hinted at a noble history.'' Passage taken from Chapter 1
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''I bought it from an antiques dealer in Ithica. He thought it was chinese, but my granddaughter doesn't believe it was not a teapot at all,but a Buddhist holy water vessel''.
Rose had decided that she would have a teapot ''expert'' evaluate it but now she thought she might not know anything more when Zunia was done than she had begun.
''One thing I do know is, it is old-silver or copper, we think.''
Zunia turned it over and over squinted over at Rose, then picked up her jewelers loupe, examining the bottom closely. She then made a noise between the teeth.''Hah! Not an antique at all. The hallmarks are fake even the patina is fake. It is a cheap repro made in Hong Kong''. Passage taken from chapter 1
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