I just got hired for a new job! After two months! I’m working on finishing up commissions before I start working so people don’t have to wait much longer.
Also celebrating with some tea. Gonna make this the header for my reblog page to match this one’s header <3
Just got back from my vacation, where I visited a small local museum and saw this almost*-period-appropriate teapot that Stede absolutely, positively, definitely owns at least one of:
(*It dates to the 1750′s. There was a big pineapple fad around that time, both for actual pineapples–which were quite expensive–and for pineapple motifs in home décor. I’m not sure if the fad had actually started by 1717, but by OFMD standards, this thing is bang in-period.)
The intact teapot is a reproduction; the fragment at the lower right is an actual artifact that they found during an archeological dig at a French and Indian War* site.
Fun Fact: There’s no evidence pointing to exactly who it was who decided he had to bring his pineapple teapot along to a war, but based on the the location, dating, and the fact that it almost had to have been an officer, they can narrow it down to about half a dozen guys, one of whom was a young George Washington.
(*For non-Americans, this was the North American theater of the Seven Years War, and ended about a decade before the American Revolution. The British colonies were fighting the French colonies, and both sides had Native American allies, hence the name.)
Happy National Tea Day to all my U.K. followers! Tea can be so many things- a quick cuppa, a fortifying beverage, a sweet pick me up, a refined drink, a ceremony, etc. It should be celebrated! I’m celebrating with this gorgeous combination in blue, which is a perfect match for how peaceful and hopeful all the recent sunshine has been making me feel. Doesn’t it just remind you of endless blue skies and lazy afternoons? Tea cozy by my Gramie, cup by Royal Stuart-Spencer Stevenson.
I don’t have that many pots in my shop, but I do have this beautiful handpainted ceramic pot! It’s about 7in x 7in tall, and can hold up to 3 cups of tea. It’s $45 visit my shop MadsenCreations.com or contact me here to order my tea lover friends! . . .#teaofinstagram #tea #teaaddict #teadrinker #tea4life #teaparty #tealover #teaporn #teadrinkersofinstagram #teapot #teapots #teapotcollector #teapotsofinstagram #teapotlover (at Yuba City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN2p-lpJ2ML/?igshid=3boz7llveqih
