Teapot in the shape of bamboo stalks

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA Chinese porcelain teapot from the Qing dynasty, per the Met, made in the eighteenth century and shaped like bamboo stalks.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight. Loupe in. It's a teapot dressed as a plant, and nobody is fooled, least of all the plant.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer the Met, it is Jingdezhen ware, painted in coloured enamels on the biscuit, which means the unglazed porcelain.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEnamels. On the biscuit. Somebody spent weeks painting a teapot to pretend it belongs in a garden.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe stalks, the joints, the green. Visible to anyone with eyes, Dale, including those without a loupe.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEarly camouflage. I'd say it was hiding from anyone who actually wanted hot water.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have seen porcelain collections in three continents. None of them had a teapot this committed to the bit.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorComposed. Right. It's eleven centimetres of pure nerve.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer the Met, about eleven centimetres tall. You are not unserious about that, I hope.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAppraisal. Two garden canes, one very small watering can, and a cup of tea I'll never trust.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNot for sale. The Met owns it, and it will outlast us both.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOutlast me. Three hundred years of disguise, and I'm the one who looks fake.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYou have never once looked like bamboo, Dale. It would be an improvement.