If you are like me you have a variety of vessels to drink your beverages from. My mug rack and mug cupboard is overflowing.
One hard and fast rule of mine is to drink tea out of designated cups. I do not drink my tea at home out of a mug. Mugs are for coffee in my house. I drink tea out of teacups or glass cups. I just think it tastes better.
When I went to help move my mom she made sure that I had anything that I wanted that she was not going to move. She happened to have a pretty teacup and saucer in her corner cabinet so you know I asked if I could have those, right?
I am not sure where it came from but I suspect it might have come from my Grandma Brown. That was something that she would have had in her house and I don’t remember my mom ever using it or buying it herself. 
I love the delicate pattern on the cup and saucer, don’t you?
It appears to be made in China if I can believe the markings on the bottom of the cup.
“I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell. That is what I want. I want peace; yes, I’d sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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Leave a commentOh, this is so daintily beautiful.
Thanks! I love it!
MMmmmmhhhh food for thought, our coffee cups do double duty w/ tea… Maybe we should get some teacups…. 😉
Hmm–I just think tea tastes better out of a glass cup or a bone china tea cup. It may be just me but it works. 🙂
Well just yesterday i moved some of the many mugs out of the drawer and replaced hem with a variety of tea cups. I do agree the tea tastes so much better from bone china tea cups. So that’s what I’m going to do from now on.
Well good for you, Judith! I love that you have a variety of teacups in your drawer now. I have many more mugs than teacups out right now but I make it work.
Very pretty! I have one that my Dad used for a commercial job years ago – also a pretty one. I also have my beautiful 4 red & gold tea cups that match my teapot but I drink my tea out of a mug – it stays hotter, longer.
I love your red set, of course. I have had that one on my wish list for awhile. Mugs do keep it hotter longer but I drink mine usually fairly quickly normally because while I savor it I also love it so much that I don’t allow it to get too cool. 🙂
That is a very sweet cup. I got a china teacup from my mom´s collection as well when we moved her. I also gave some to friends of mine who knew her. They were so pleased and mom was happy they went o good homes. I have special mugs my daughter made for me that I use for herbal and fruit teas. Regular, black tea I drink in a teacup. My English father-in-law drinks his tea in a tankard! Cups and mugs aren´t big enough for him!!!
I love that you have a cup from your mom’s collection and were able to give some to friends as well. That is a very sweet remembrance. Your tea drinking vessels all sound perfect and I love your father in law’s tankard idea!
Even me also, i prefer Tea in Teacup instead of a Mug. Mug suits for Coffee…
by the way is it true that Tea tastes better in a Teacup ?
I think it does taste even better in a teacup!!!
Wow.. Those tea cups are so cute! I saw never see this kind of tableware. I think, I fell in love with it!!!