Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, Tea party in the tavern (In the tavern), 1874
https://arthive.com/artists/263~Victor_Mikhailovich_Vasnetsov/works/388709~Tea_party_in_the_tavern_In_the_tavern
Jan Selmer
Am 19.03.2018 um 17:15 schrieb Ed:
> I recall people in Texas in the 1930s pouring hot coffee from cup into
> saucer and letting it cool a few minutes before drinking it from the
> saucer. And I recall a radio comedian, probably Bob Burns, saying to
> someone who was complaining that his coffee was too hot, "Here take
> mine. It's already saucered and blowed."
>
> ebj
>
>
> On 3/19/2018 9:49 AM, Cross, Matthew wrote:
>> HistArchers,
>>
>> Thank you for your responses.
>>
>> It appears the idea of people drinking tea from saucers does have some
>> merits. The textural sources speak of it as déclassé behavior in the
>> late nineteenth century, including a number of etiquette books and
>> Laura Ingalls Wilder writing of her father. Jan Selmer shared a 1914
>> Markovsky painting of a woman drinking (or at minimum, cooling) tea in
>> the saucer. Other paintings and old photographs reviewed do not depict
>> such behavior. The examples of saucer drinking, however, seem to be in
>> the minority. It certainly appears to have been a practice, but
>> possibly more in a faddish manner, maybe restricted to the
>> mid-nineteenth century. Though it is also possible that the behavior
>> may have been class related, as the artistic descriptions and
>> etiquette books depicted a higher status life than the average family.
>>
>>
>> —Matt Cross
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>>
>> Matthew E. Cross
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>>
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>> From: "Cross, Matthew" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Friday, February 23, 2018 at 11:53 AM
>> To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Saucer Question
>>
>> HistArchers:
>>
>> I have, for years, seen archaeologists and others note that tea was
>> drunk out of saucers in the 19th century. Generally, it is something
>> along the lines of first the tea was poured into the teacup, then
>> poured from the teacup to the saucer to cool the tea, and finally
>> consumed from the saucer.
>>
>> Does anybody have historical references to such behavior? I have only
>> seen modern, anecdotal mentions.
>>
>>
>> —Matt Cross
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> Matthew E. Cross
>> Archaeological Assistant — Historic Section
>>
>> Illinois State Archaeological Survey
>> Prairie Research Institute
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> 209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
>> 23 East Stadium Drive
>> Champaign, IL 61820
>>
>> 217.300.3060
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