Featured FOMO French teapot

I bought this completely out of FOMO and intrigue. What the fudge can it be. I can't find anything like it online. It looks like something from The Mad Hatter's tea party. The only potential clue is the writing on the side 'les builles mortes' perhaps?

 

Les feuilles mortes - dead leaves. If Google is right, it's a reference to the original French version of Autumn Leaves (Yves Montand). I'm not sure how that makes sense with little purple flowers, but there's no question of what it says.

 

Ah thanks. Mystery solved. Maybe it's a play on words because you put dead tea leaves in it? Autumn leaves has now become a jazz standard and possibly where Gary Moore got his influence for still got the blues IMO. My guitar tutor gave me the standard chords to learn maybe 15 years ago but I completely forgot the French name of it. I'd never heard the Yves Montand version of it until now.

 

title aside (which is confusing given translation)

it looks like a one off craft show/amateur painted or overpainted blank type

don't think you'll find another one or even close

can see someone wanting it though

 

Fear of missing out Charles. You buy something just in case it's worth something. You're probably right about it being a one off. I can't even find another spout the same.

Pssst wanna buy a weird teapot?

 

that's gotta be OOAK..

 

FOMOOOAK!

 

I get more of a FOSSBTBSOI (fear of spraining something,by the bloody size of it)

 

Yes it's going to be a pain packaging it. Starting to wish I'd left it on the shelf

 

if theres one thing the british like to do (apart from burning in the sun) is collect teapots (so the more unusal the better )

oh the amount of teapot collections i've seen

 

whats the abbreviation for post fomo ?

 

Fear of missing out.

 

I prefer Yves Montand, both the original version and the man.
(I can see what Marilyn Monroe saw in him.)

 

gotta love the french male singing voice

the only other possibility is that its title has got sort of mixed up with with the other autumn leaves (long shot i know)

any excuse for a bit of eva

 

Especially when it is Yves Montand.
Who was actually Italian, but that is another story.

 

yeah never heard of him before, but really like

like that other french artist as well, probably one of my favourites, just fills me with goosebumps

 

elvis costello commented that his cover of that song was the thing he was the most proud of in his musical career

 

My husband had my phone number under that name, inspired by the song. He was the sweetest man.