Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Tea for Two-sday ~ Teacup Tales: Painted Purple



Happy Tea for Two-sday to you! Today I thought I would talk about another teacup - though it's actually a tea set with sugar, creamer, teapot, cups and saucers.

It might be a little difficult to see the colors in the picture, but the set is painted purple and gold. The insides are a pearlescent white. Very pretty! It would be a special set just for how pretty and unusual it is, but it actually belonged to my Great Aunt Catherine, who passed away a few years ago. I am honored to have it!

My Great Aunt Catherine hand-painted this Bavarian china tea set while she was in high school. They had a China Painting Class! What a lost art. I think it's fascinating. She initialed and dated the bottom of each piece. The set was painted by her in 1928!

I never knew this set existed or that she had hand-painted any china. A couple of my Aunts were going through her things before an estate sale a couple of years ago and called to see if I would like them to pick out something for me. This is the set they picked out and shipped to me. How special! My Great Aunt Catherine also had a book written during the her last year telling many stories of her life. I have a copy and it tells of the China Painting Class!

I hope you enjoyed my little Teacup Tale today. Do you have any treasured teacups in your home?

8 comments:

  1. What a completely wonderful story and what a beautiful tea set. Do you use it? Or is it just for show? It just looks like it would make any tea taste better!
    BIG hugs.
    Kim

    ReplyDelete
  2. That is a gorgeous set!! Check my blog out today. My cupcake competition did tea and per your suggestion, I made the cupcake into a tea cup:-)

    ReplyDelete
  3. I don't...but for my birthday my sweet little girl picked me out a really cool artsy fartsy green mug and I love it! :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. What a beautiful set! I do have some pretty tea cups & tea pots. I love them. I used to collect them more before my son was born. They are so pretty. They remind me of a bygone era.

    BTW, I tried a new tea last night...China Pearl by Celestial Seasonings. Way yummy! It's not a fruity flavor. It's more subtle than that. Of course, I had to add sugar to it :o)

    ReplyDelete
  5. That is such an amazing tea set and the story behind it is so very priceless. Thanks for sharing! Also, my Chocomommies blog is up and running, I promoted your blog through my first official posting :)

    http://www.chocomommies.blogspot.com

    ReplyDelete
  6. Could you imagine a "tea set painting" class being offered today! Wouldn't that be cool! That set is simply beautiful. What a treasured memory!

    Stay Cozy,
    Carrie

    ReplyDelete
  7. Beautiful set! I love collecting tea cups and tea pots. I like the way you used another tea cup and saucer as a serving piece. Very nice.

    Enjoy your precious heirloom.

    ReplyDelete
  8. I love your tea set and the wonderful story.
    My 7 year old grandaughter and I are collecting tea sets and regularly have tea parties.
    Elizabeth (simplepleasures)

    ReplyDelete

I would love to hear your comments! Thank you for stopping and smelling the chocolates with me!! Currently disabled anonymous comments due to spam attempts - thanks for understanding!

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...