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Soft Paste Handless Tea Sipper Cup And Cooling Bowl Pair, Rare Antique

Name: Soft Paste Handless Tea Sipper Cup And Cooling Bowl Pair, Rare Antique
Brand: RareBeautyCollector
SKU: 97985290
Price: 225.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.0 (249 reviews)

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Vintage from the 19th century
Materials: Ceramic
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A rare soft paste matched handleless tea sipper cup and cooling saucer pair, painted with five petaled, yellow center Forget-Me-Not flowers and leaves.

There is kiln grit present on all four pieces, as to be expected on pieces this early. The saucers are painted with the number '42' but there are no other marks.

The saucers are slightly off round, as usual for hand-formed porcelain.

No chips, no cracks. All paint appears to be present.

Each bowl is authentic. These are not reproductions. There is some light crazing visible, but they are otherwise in perfect shape.

Saucers are approximately 5 1/2" wide.

Here is a bit of history:

They are British, and we have been able to ID the style as being British. Pairs are rare, too. The fact that they have the 'frit' or kiln grit makes them old, too- just not sure yet HOW old....I have seen these listed as being from the 1700's to 1800's.

They are charming- we love the 'wobbly' look of these old pieces.

As far as the history- I have seen many stories, but this is what I have pieced together. Early British potteries never actually thought about handles for teacups until later, because the early cups were based on Asian designs- and Antique Asian porcelain teacups have no handles- ever, but they only hold 30ml of liquid, and the custom is to 'gulp' the tea very, very fast- so the fingers of an Asian tea drinker would not be burned.

However, the British cups were bigger- and people complained that their fingers were being burned (very old Asian porcelain is thicker, too.). Hence, the cooling saucer. Kind of funny- all these rich people COMPLETELY not understanding the Asian tea custom, LOL...makes us giggle to think of all these wealthy, cultured people slurping tea from a saucer.

It makes sense- the handle came later

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