The 1983 sets for tea, coffee, cream and sugar embodied the stylized neoclassical vocabulary championed by the architectural stars of the day.
Ippodo Tea Co., the lauded 300-year-old Japanese tea company based in Kyoto, offers a few holiday gift sets for tea lovers.
Put toys against the walls, a bookshelf or two for story time, a carpet with pillows on it and plushies, a mushroom chair and table with acorn tea set for playing tea time.
"Endeavour" offers a different and not negligible set of pleasures: it's like a table perfectly set for afternoon tea, cress sandwiches here, clotted cream there.
Only children gathered in small groups, and once, in the distance, three mothers with prams advanced toward a bombed-out lot where a bedspring, a mirror, a couple of chairs and a table forlornly set for low tea stood amid the trash.
Think of a board game, finger paints, a pile of Lego bricks, or a tea set for a make-believe tea party.
After Ms. Jelley gave her sister a tea set for her birthday a couple of years ago, they occasionally sipped afternoon tea together.
His skill as a chemist had led to the introduction of his pearly "creamware", which caught the attention of the local aristocracy, and in early 1765, to his stunned delight, he received an order for a tea set for Queen Charlotte, with candlesticks and fruit baskets, "with a gold ground and raised flowers upon it in green".
"I found that the bows on the hat needed to be exaggerated a bit in the figurine," Shilling recalls, "and I moved the arms about and found where they looked best". He has also designed an 18-piece coffee / tea set for Wedgwood--it bears the Wedgwood mark--decorated with a delicate design like that on a paisley shawl, with pearl drops, beads, ribbons and floral sprays.
