teaset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teasets
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1914 December 24, “Letters to Santa Claus”, in The Pensacola Journal, volume XVII, number 258, Pensacola, Fla., page 6:
text: 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.
ref: 1933 September 27, Parliamentary Debates, page 1123:
text: 'RICHMOND' STAINLESS STEEL TEASET / Contemporary beauty combines with traditional Swan Brand quality to make the RICHMOND Solid Stainless Steel Teaset a truly treasured possession.
ref: 1959, Homes and Gardens:
text: 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.
ref: 1968, Geoffrey A. Godden, Minton Pottery & Porcelain of the First Period, 1793-1850, page 32:
text: 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.
ref: 1981, The Antiques Journal, page 52:
text: 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
ref: 1982, Natalie V. Robinson, Sino-Thai Ceramics in the National Museum, Bangkok, Thailand, and in Private Collections, pages 304–305:
text: 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).
ref: 1983, Geoffrey Godden, editor, Staffordshire Porcelain, page 70:
text: 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.
ref: 1987, John Gibson, Contemporary Pottery Decoration, Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, page 36:
text: What I want for chrismas^([sic]) is: Scooter samantha, million dollars, miniphone, make up, bracelet, pajama with bears on it, Gooze, cotton candy maker, nail set, cappucino^([sic]) set, ration set, new groovy shoes, teaset, jewelry set, P. S. I love you
ref: 2001 December 20, Angelica Woods, “Christmas Photo Album & Letters to Santa”, in The Winona Times, volume 119, number 51, Montgomery County, Miss., page 15B:
text: The nine-procedure tea means the nine procedures of tea as art, i.e., appraising tea, washing teasets, putting tea leaves into the teapot, pouring hot water into the teapot, stirring the tea, pouring the tea into teacups, offering tea to the guests, and drinking tea together.[…]After the guests finish selecting their tea, the girl washes clean the wax-printed tea cloth and all sorts of teasets, puts tea leaves into the teapot, pours hot water into it, and then stirs the tea.
ref: 2005, Ling Wang, “The Art of Serving Tea”, in Tea and Chinese Culture, San Francisco: Long River Press, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Alternative form of tea set.