I bid on this tea service recently on ebay, and it arrived today. This is only a small part of it – there are more cups and saucers, a serving plate and cake plates, and a sugar bowl, and I love that there is a hot water jug for topping up the pot! It is made of beautifully thin Shelley porcelain from the 1920s. I’m actually looking for an art deco tea service with which to serve tea in my soon-to-be completed art deco front room, but couldn’t resist this one as well!
Here is my cottage teapot collection:
You can see why I needed the pink pot, can’t you?
I love this one. It doesn’t get used all that often, but I really like the hot water jug under the teapot:
And this creamware one, which looks like a sieve:
As my teapot collection grows, I realise that my tea cosy collection has become woefully inadequate…
There’s this yukky acrylic one (not made by me):
And this much scrummier alpaca one from John Arbon (ie, also not made by me):
Yay! More new knitting projects!
Must go now, the votes are in for the wonderousness that is the Eurovision song contest, and I need to see the results. I voted for the Latvian pirates, but the Bosnia-Herzagovinian knitting brides had to be seen to be believed! Someone on Ravelry just said that she had missing Eurovision on her list of cons when deciding whether to move to the US. She did move, but I bet it was a close call…
what a gorgeous set. I’m not that into pink but that’s lovely. Great find!
I forgot about the knitting brides! I regaled friends with so many of the things I saw last night and totally forgot the knitting brides. They were fabulous(ly bad).
Wah, I didn’t see the knitting brides, although I was quite taken with the Latvian pirates.
LOVE the Shelley tea service. Oh my mum will be so jealous, as she collects Shelley. It is very hard to get out here, particularly the teapots – and for you to have a whole set! You are very very lucky!!
I love the new tea service. I have never seen one that includes a pitcher for hot water as well so that you can top off the pot. That is brilliant, I always run out of tea in my pot and have to go make more.
That’s a super tea set and what’s more a decent looking cup of tea!
I’m beginning to see a colour theme emerge here…
Weren’t the Latvian pirates just fabulous? Don’t hold it against me, but I have to admit I was quite taken with the Icelandic entry as well…
The teapots are lovely. There you are with so many and here I am with not even one teapot, because I always find them so boring. Obviously I haven’t been looking in the right places.
I looooooove the pink setting, how absolutely gorgeous and what a great find on ebay. Lucky duck.
eurovision–what is it???? and when is it coming to bbc america???
A teapot collection – are we Siamese Twins separated at birth? Every time I read your blog I get that feeling
Michelle