teaset

plural teasets

1. alternativeAlternative form of tea set.

   'RICHMOND' STAINLESS STEEL TEASET / Contemporary beauty combines with traditional Swan Brand quality to make the RICHMOND Solid Stainless Steel Teaset a truly treasured possession.

   1959, Homes and Gardens

   5 more examples

   I am writing to tell you what I want you to bring me a piano, a little dresser, a doll, a doll trunk, a doll cradle, a teaset, a pair of gloves, and please don’t forget papa and mamma and my three little brothers.[…]I am your little friend, Bessie May Earnest.[…]I want you to bring me a big doll and some teasets and a doll carriage and a doll table for me and some little doll chairs, some handkerchiefs, four beauty pins, a little box of powder, a box of candy, and apples and oranges, some peanuts, nuts and hair ribbon, and a pair of little scissors.[…]Your friend, Sadie Beal.[…]I wish you would please bring me a doll, a carriage, a teaset, a beureau and washstand like mamma’s.[…]Your little friend, Isabelle Touart, 624 West Zarragossa street.

   1914 December 24, “Letters to Santa Claus”, in The Pensacola Journal, volume XVII, number 258, Pensacola, Fla., page 6

   When they arrive at Boan’s they spend the wages they earned in making dolls or teasets, by buying similar teasets and similar dolls. But those dolls and teasets were put into Boans perhaps six months previously.

   1933 September 27, Parliamentary Debates, page 1123

   Some of the very earliest 1798–1800 teasets had handleless tea bowls instead of handled cups (as did contemporary Chinese and some English teasets, such as New Hall services) but I have been able to trace only five such Minton teabowls.

   1968, Geoffrey A. Godden, Minton Pottery & Porcelain of the First Period, 1793-1850, page 32

   In the years since, prices have increased so that now they are generally high, especially for some of the hand-painted quality teasets.[…]Children’s teasets at 49 cents were artistically decorated and distinctive in that the cups were handleless.

   1981, The Antiques Journal, page 52

   This nineteenth century teaset is of imperial quality and probably from the Rama II period, 1809-1824[…]Yi-hsing teapot with teaset of fine quality decorated with animal symbols of the twelve-year chronological cycle used in China and Thailand, probably Rama V period

   1982, Natalie V. Robinson, Sino-Thai Ceramics in the National Museum, Bangkok, Thailand, and in Private Collections, pages 304–305