Tea Tells a Story at The Met’s New British Galleries

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

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

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...
An English Classic

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!

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

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

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

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

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...

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