Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A teacup is a cup for drinking tea. It generally has a small handle that may be grasped with the thumb and one or two fingers. It is typically made of a ceramic material and is often part of a set which is composed of a cup and a matching saucer or a trio that includes a small cake or sandwich plate. These may be part of a tea set combined with ...
Tea cup ballet is a 1935 photograph by Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton. It is arguably Cotton's best known work. [ 1] The photograph depicts six tea cups and saucers lit so to form shadows that suggest the form of ballet dancers. This picture evolved after I had bought some inexpensive cups and saucers from Woolworths for our ...
130.1946.a-c. Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), lit. Object ("The Luncheon in Fur"), known in English as Fur Breakfast or Breakfast in Fur, is a 1936 sculpture by the surrealist Méret Oppenheim, consisting of a fur -covered teacup, saucer and spoon. The work, which originated in a conversation in a Paris cafe, is the most frequently-cited ...
1878 programme cover. Cups and Saucers is a one-act "satirical musical sketch" written and composed by George Grossmith. The piece pokes fun at the china collecting craze of the later Victorian era, which was part of the Aesthetic movement later satirised in Patience and The Colonel. The story of the sketch involves an engaged man and woman who ...
A tea party held in the U.S. Capitol in honor of America's Centennial, 1875. In this engraving, Carl Schurz (senator from Missouri) is standing at the tea table on the left. The American tea culture [ 4] is a part of the history of the United States, as tea has appealed to all classes and has adapted to the customs of the United States of America.
The moustache cup (or mustache cup) is a drinking cup with a semicircular ledge inside. The ledge, called a moustache guard, has a half moon-shaped opening to allow the passage of liquids and serves as a guard to keep moustaches dry. It is generally acknowledged to have been invented in the 1870s by British potter Harvey Adams (1835–?). [ 1][ 2]
Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy, tassology, or tasseology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments . The terms derive from the French word tasse ( cup ), which in turn derives from the Arabic loan-word into French tassa, and the respective Greek suffixes -graph ...
Osborne Art Studio decorated Lorenz Hutschenreuther Selb cup and saucer Osborne Art Studio backstamp on Lorenz Hutschenreuther Selb saucer Osborne Art Studio decorated Hutschenreuther Selb 6-1/4 plate. Hutschenreuther is the name of a German family that established the production of porcelain in northern Bavaria, starting in 1814.