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#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.









#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.

link1:Tokoname Master Craftsman making Kysu(Japanese tepaot)
link2:Hokujo profile