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.
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.
You madwoman! You crazed degenerate! Everyone, run for your lives!
Hey, howzabout pics?
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!
May I suggest www.replacements.com ? Would be worth a shot.
VCNJ~
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~
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 