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IAN rupture is a man possessed. His special passion is tea. He says he drinks more than half a liter per day. The extent of his passion is seen on the show for all to an exhibition at Elizabeth Bay House, entitled Taking Tea.
Burst he believes has the most comprehensive collections of eccentric teapots and para-teataking phernalia in the world.
The difference between his collection and other major collections of tea is things that do not necessarily bursting with quality, aesthetics and sophistication possessed. "You have seen my interest in history. I'm really interested in technological development of the teapot," he says.
Charting This development led him to some strange and wonderful teapots that other collectors, who can now acquire eagerly say, would be a William IV London silver inverted Baluster shape with a serrated edge pedestal foot, or Meissen porcelain tea pot, not to touch it with a sliver spoon.
One of the gems, the bursting has an Australian sheep shearer "teapot is primitive, but stable in galvanized iron knew built. These industrious, practical pot stands about 37.5 inches high. In Inside is a long cylinder, with holes punctured in the size of a roof-nail, to reduce the leaves. He bought it three years ago at the antique fair at the Sydney Showground.
At the other end of the spectrum is a rare 19th Century Chinese teapot in the form of two small barrels separated by a vertical perforated wall. This type of pot was developed in the Shing Hsi Province of China.
The one that has burst on the display of a fine, chocolate-brown ceramic with a matte surface. He is proud that his three such pots Tea Museum in Hong Kong does not even have one.
The paradox of his collection is that, while he eagerly eccentric Teapots in an attempt sought catalog part tea innovations which teapots, the more they stay the same change.
This, he explained, because tea is a substantially easier Process. "The basic premise is that you do your tea leaves in a pot with boiling water," he says.
"And because today basically as satisfied as the 18th Century was, I was able to take one of these pots dis-play and show them to a tea drinker in London in 1705, and he could to identify it as a teapot. There was no significant change, which has remained. "
To demonstrate the consistency of principle, he crooks his little finger under the handle of a pot and hanging it up. "You can tell that if I keep it so the teapot is perpendicular to, is with the run down? The reason that can sink to the bottom and when you pour the tea, the pot is designed so that the blades push the bottom of the pot so the water always flows nor to them and takes the taste. "
This basic design has not stopped tinkering with refinements and innovations makers tried not to mention all sorts of different materials, from the finest porcelain to alloys of tin (commonly called Britannia metal) on glass.
The slight modifications and decorations are the core of the collection bursting. For example, there is the Cadogan teapot, named after Lord Cadogan, which actually filled from the bottom and has a tube that brewed the tea delivers on the run when the pot is the way turned up.
Burst shows me a different variation on the theme of David Lindo, who discovered in 1881 that tea decreased and argued that it interpreted the screen would be on the bottom of the pot. His resulting design looks very strange to see from today's perspective, the usual screen at the bottom of the spout.
When I ask why Lindo innovation is not to catch on, says it simply does not rupture the design provide an edge in the market. But it has inspired other commercial development.
"When the novelty of the table, so bring it for everyone to see, then you can sell it," he says.
The novelty of Lindo Design is built in Royle's Patent Self spout of 1886. This pot has a pump built into the lid so that instead of pouring the tea you to pump it. The Royle did have to sell in large numbers.
Another gem is not the SYP or Simple perfect target = "_blank" title = "Yixing Tea> teapot, which is also an aristocratic connection. It developed from the Earl of Dundonald. In the SYP, the tea is brewed with the pot on the back. Make the tea in a tray, pour in the water, on a lid that seals the section, and let it brew. If you are ready to pour the tea, turn it at its base, trapping the tea leaves in the tip.
Burst is not paid from property of his pots, but he was prepared to travel widely in pursuit the unique. When he is in Europe, its weekend flea market may cover round trip to Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Germany and France.
He says he can not by drive a country town and not stop at the antique and second-hand shops. Well, this is an obsession.

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