# Who has a tea set? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568 "2005-12-07T21:53:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/21 "2005-12-08T14:16:29Z")
I have 3, one in plain white porcelain, 6 cup set, creamer, hot water pot, teapot, the works. One in oatmeal glazed stoneware, just a teapot and 6 cups and saucers, and one chinese teapot, carved from marble, with 5 teabowls. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/22 "2005-12-08T17:04:32Z")
I don’t drink tea but inherited several sets I keep out because I have little decoration in the house as is. One is a sterling silver pot, with a tray, sugar bowl and milk ? (what is it called?) The really cool set has about 20 pieces it’s from Japan. I have no earthly idea how or why my mother got it. As a little kid I remember it in a wooden crate packed with straw in the attic. It has amazing designs. If you hold the bottom of the cups up to the light it’s a portrait of a woman’s face. The thickness of the porcelin is how it’s done. Very very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/23 "2005-12-08T17:10:28Z")
> [@cherry](#): > > I have a tea cozy. You madwoman! You crazed degenerate! Everyone, run for your lives! ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/24 "2005-12-08T17:52:15Z")
Hey, howzabout pics? ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/25 "2005-12-08T18:43:10Z")
A couple of my students got me the cutest little tea set. They were my “regulars” that semester, there every week for office hours. They both really struggled, but, by God, by the time we got to the end of the semester, they knew their physics! It was a real privilege to work with them and watch them grow from being insecure and lost to being very confident and competent. They must have noticed that I always had a mug of tea at hand, and I was really bowled over by their thoughtful gift (delivered after grades were posted, lest you think there was sucking-up going on. 🙂 ) It was very clearly an inexpensive gift-pack thing, which is good, because I’d feel uncomfortable if I thought they’d spent very much on it. The pot is small, holds maybe 1 1/2 proper cups of tea, and there are two small Asian-style cups with leaf-shaped saucers. The pot and cups have a bamboo leaf painted on them. My favorite part, though, is the wooden tray, which really pulls the whole set together and gives it a much more sophisticated air; it looks very fetching on my bookshelf, and I get a lot of compliments on it despite the a fact that it is not of praticularly noteworthy craftsmanship. I love it lots and lots, because it reminds me fondly of the students, and because if someone’s hanging out in my office and I want to make myself a cup of tea, I can go ahead and make some without being rude, because I’m able to offer them a cup. **Johnny** , your tea set is beautiful! And the first project thing I ever knitted was a teacosy. A very large, lumpy, and ill-shapen tea cosy. Run for the hills! ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/26 "2005-12-08T19:23:09Z")
> [@snorlax](#): > > Touchy subject in the snorlax household. We did, until about a month ago when I broke our teapot. Wedding present, from the now discontinued Platinum range from Marks & Sparks. Lost one teapot, gained one doghouse. May I suggest [www.replacements.com](http://www.replacements.com) ? Would be worth a shot. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/27 "2005-12-08T19:24:51Z")
I do - from my mother’s wedding china - “Lynbrook” by Noritake - circa 1948. I also have a silver tea service (teapot, coffee pot, sugar bowl, creamer, waste bowl & tray) in the “Prelude” silver pattern. Rarely use it. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568/28 "2005-12-08T20:46:54Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > This reminded me of [_Everyday Use_](http://www.bownet.org/jmcdermott/everyday_use__by_alice_walker.htm) by Alice Walker. Yay for Alice Walker – I find I appreciate her now more than I did the first time when I read this story in high school Although I’d honestly hope I’m Maggie and not Dee 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-a-tea-set/334568.md?page=1)