Thomas Forester Phoenix China Art Deco Teacup Saucer & Side Plate 2429
Thomas Forester Phoenix China Art Deco Teacup Saucer & Side Plate 2429
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Art Deco Forester Phoenix brand pattern 2429 China Teacup saucer and side plate
- Classic English tall design from the 1920s
- Thomas Forester & Sons Blue and gilt pattern 2429 Bone China
- 3-inch diameter tall teacup with gilt to rims and pixie ear handle
- 2-7/8th-inches tall
- 5.5-inch diameter saucer plain rim with dual gilt bands.
- 7-inch diameter side plate plain rim with gilt
- All pieces with Phoenix English China stamp 2429 hand applied in gilt on some pieces by the decorators
- Made at the Phoenix works Longton.
- There is a wonderful depth of the blue glaze with some light areas, the porcelain is thin and translucent, the overall effect is very striking.
- Very pretty, very English, Very 1920s - 1930s
- We are listing a small part tea set
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Who doesn’t enjoy a cup of tea. Some people live on coffee, it’s nice in its own way but tea is different, it has a culture of its own something coffee does not have.
At one end the Japanese tea ceremony at the other a builder’s cup of tea, hot, strong and possibly sweet.
In between those two can be whatever you want. You can start with a tea bag, it’s ok for most occasions of course or you can use loose tea.
Loose tea is a whole new world from where it is grown to the altitude, the time of the year, white, yellow, green, oolong, black, Pu erh, Gunpowder, Russian caravan teas and what is Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe? and this is just the start of what you can buy.
So brewing your loose tea, in a tea pot, is easy enough then pouring it through a tea strainer into your cup and putting a tea cosy on to the pot to keep it warm for the next cup.
Here we come to the cup. As I said you can have a mug, but after going to all this effort what you really need is a special cup.
At Vintage Farmhouse antiques I found this lovely art deco cup, nearly 100 years old but it could be new.
Smaller than the modern cup/mug but that’s why you need a tea pot.
So there we are a quality cup of tea drunk in a lovely looking cup, and because it is vintage it will be so much cheaper than a new one of the same quality, and quite likely of a design that is no longer made. Remember, just because it is a cup of real quality and class you can still dunk a biscuit into it