The Sotheby's sale includes things humble and grand: candle snuffers, cruet holders, lemon strainers, mugs, dessert dishes, silver salts, candlesticks, bread baskets, teapots and soup tureens.
Great served with ice cream, cream desserts or just a mug of tea.
These included a gold-painted basket, red-and-green plaid place mats, candleholders, several rolls of gift wrap and blue dessert plates and matching mugs, decorated with snowmen.
So dessert was quite a haphazard affair, with people eating out of mugs and glasses and various other things.
A 10-inch dinner plate is $28.50; the 7-inch salad or dessert plate with an underwater scene, $16.50; a soup bowl, $15; and a mug, $18.
For a different and richer dessert, add a large scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream in a half-filled large mug of coffee; or just blend together for a great, easy shake.
For dessert, try the apple strudel, the Linzer torte, or the palatschinken, an Austrian crêpe, and, when one of the friendly servers offers up a mug of steaming glühwein to wash it all down, accept without hesitation.
Four beige coffee mugs are all-of-a-kind, but one is badly chipped; I make sure to place it at my setting when I'm putting out dessert.
