Tea Tells a Story at The Met’s New British Galleries
Text by Bruce Richardson • Photography Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
How did Britain become such a nation of tea drinkers? The answer...
Our Favorite Blue and White Teapots
Check out favorite blue and white teapots from the pages of TeaTime.
Tea Towels: More Than Decoration
Since its humble beginnings as a drying cloth, the tea towel has taken its place around a loaf of freshly baked bread, as a...
Treasured Teapot: Fruitful Festivity
Text by Katherine Ellis Photography by John O’Hagan
The classic ivory hue, golden edges, and harvested produce bedecked on Spode Chatham make this vintage beauty...
The Complete Table: An English Classic
Royal Albert’s Old Country Roses is the best-selling bone china pattern in the world.
In 1962, the Royal Albert Company introduced a new china pattern...
J’adore Limoges!
By Kerry Vincent
Photography Courtesy of Bernardaud
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was besotted with china, porcelain, and cut-glass artwork. The...
Treasured Teapot: Romantic Enchantment
Text by Katherine Ellis Photography by John O’Hagan Styling by Maghan Armstrong
The beguiling bouquets of pink flowers bedecked on Hutschenreuther’s Richelieu teapot provide a...
The Complete Table: Hearts and Flowers
A pretty Royal Crown Derby pattern from the past finds new life in a new millennium.
The delicate geometric designs and stylized hearts and flowers of...
TeaTime 15: Notable Tea Accoutrements
Text by Lorna Reeves • Photography by John O'Hagan
While teapots and cups and saucers are, for many people, the stars of the table at teatime,...
Essential Tea-Table Extras: The History of Dainty Accoutrements
by Jane Pettigrew • Photography Courtesy of Replacements, Ltd.
The prettiest tea tables are always dressed with exquisite porcelain teacups and saucers, fine silver teaspoons, little linen...