Meaning

Alternative form of tea set..

Example Sentences

I am writing to tell you what I want you to bring me a piano, a little dresser, a doll, a doll trunk, a doll cradle, a teaset, a pair of gloves, and please don’t forget papa and mamma and my three little brothers.[…]I am your little friend, Bessie May Earnest.[…]I want you to bring me a big doll and some teasets and a doll carriage and a doll table for me and some little doll chairs, some handkerchiefs, four beauty pins, a little box of powder, a box of candy, and apples and oranges, some peanuts, nuts and hair ribbon, and a pair of little scissors.[…]Your friend, Sadie Beal.[…]I wish you would please bring me a doll, a carriage, a teaset, a beureau and washstand like mamma’s.[…]Your little friend, Isabelle Touart, 624 West Zarragossa street.

When they arrive at Boan’s they spend the wages they earned in making dolls or teasets, by buying similar teasets and similar dolls. But those dolls and teasets were put into Boans perhaps six months previously.

'RICHMOND' STAINLESS STEEL TEASET / Contemporary beauty combines with traditional Swan Brand quality to make the RICHMOND Solid Stainless Steel Teaset a truly treasured possession.

Some of the very earliest 1798–1800 teasets had handleless tea bowls instead of handled cups (as did contemporary Chinese and some English teasets, such as New Hall services) but I have been able to trace only five such Minton teabowls.

In the years since, prices have increased so that now they are generally high, especially for some of the hand-painted quality teasets.[…]Children’s teasets at 49 cents were artistically decorated and distinctive in that the cups were handleless.

This nineteenth century teaset is of imperial quality and probably from the Rama II period, 1809-1824[…]Yi-hsing teapot with teaset of fine quality decorated with animal symbols of the twelve-year chronological cycle used in China and Thailand, probably Rama V period

As I have stated, New Hall worked at a time of great social change: nothing shows this more than the composition of the teasets and the style of decoration on them. During the first decade, a teaset was still very much the prerequisite of the lady’s drawing-room and its ritual. Thus we find that many of the teasets, in particular the gilded ones, had a tea-caddy (Plate 99) and a spoon-tray (Plate 106).

Through his teasets Roger can explore all sorts of human experiences; some of his shapes reflect certain human characteristics and foibles, such as pomposity, elegance of bearing or a round and comfortable figure. He sees his teasets as personal objects which have an intimate, human quality, being drawn from the china cabinet when guests appear or serving as an accompaniment to everyday living.

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• teasets

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