Porcelain Saucer for Spoons
Silver saucer for spoons
Saucer for spoons ( English spoon boat, boat for spoons, spoon tray, spooner [1] ) - an element of a tea service , a special saucer for placing teaspoons , briefly popular in England in the 18th century.
Silver saucers appeared in everyday life around 1690, sometimes resembling a teapot stand in a drawing. Already in 1722, the import of Chinese porcelain saucers for spoons began; the saucers themselves were still new at the time. Import of porcelain, as in the case of other tea service items, apparently reduced the English production of silver analogues [2] .
Spoon saucers as part of the tea service went out of fashion by the 1790s [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Bill Boggess, Louise Boggess. American Brilliant Cut Glass . Crown Publishers, 1977. (English) p. 122.
- ↑ 1 2 Lippert, 1987 , p. 186.
Literature
- Catherine Beth Lippert. Catalog Number 37 // Eighteenth-century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. - Indiana University Press, 1987 .-- P. 184-187. - 280 p. (eng.)