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Show TEAPOT COLLECTION CARNEGIE'S NEW FAD Special Cable to The Tribune. 'LONDON, July 22 Few knew that Andrew An-drew Carnegie Is sl connoisseur of teapots tea-pots and possusses one of the largest anil most valuablo and Interesting collections In the world. No teapot Is loo small or ugly lo be added to his collection If only It Is distinctive In some -.vay, either for its peculiar make, Its form, or decoration, and many of thorn are tho subject of romantic ro-mantic slory or legend. From tho Land of the Hieing Sun some of them have been brought to America, where they wore found by Ihclr collelcor. while others wero sought In out-of-the-way places of JSuropo and tho Orient. Tho Carnegie collection of teapots includes in-cludes over 100 pieces, many of them having been among the chief troasuros of noblo Japanese families. Side by side with the Japanese teapots are others from China, distinguished chiefly by their rich glaze and vivid floral decorations. Chinese porcelains have always attracted artists and collectors of things artistic, and the little toapols in Carncglo's collection col-lection show some of the peculiar Chinese forms of decoration, grotesriuo Dgurcs and pleaBlng floral designs. Nearly all are fo while pdrcelaln ornamented In color, tiomc of them of tin: famous cobalt blue. |