Uma das minhas motivações para acumular objetos de loiça, a maior parte ligados ao chá, é dar guarida a peças de boa qualidade, belas e apreciadas à nascença, mas que ficaram desprezadas por algum tombo que deixou estrago, ou pela perda do seu complemento, chávena ou pires.
One of my motivations to accumulate china objects, most of them tea related, is to give shelter to good quality pieces, beautiful and appreciated at birth, but left uncared due to some fall that resulted in damage or to the loss of the matching part, cup or saucer.
One of my motivations to accumulate china objects, most of them tea related, is to give shelter to good quality pieces, beautiful and appreciated at birth, but left uncared due to some fall that resulted in damage or to the loss of the matching part, cup or saucer.
Depois, aqui no blogue, procuro dar-lhes de novo um certo glamour, pela história que podem contar, pela temática da decoração ou pela companhia que lhes consigo arranjar, para participarem em mais um chá à terça-feira. Hoje mais uma vez com Tea Cup Tuesday, Tea Time Tuesday e Tuesday Cuppa Tea.
Then, here in the blog, I try to give them some glamour again, through the story they can tell, the theme of the decoration... or the company I find for them :) so they can participate in another tea on Tuesday. Today, once again with Tea Cup Tuesday, Tea Time Tuesday and Tuesday Cuppa Tea.
Then, here in the blog, I try to give them some glamour again, through the story they can tell, the theme of the decoration... or the company I find for them :) so they can participate in another tea on Tuesday. Today, once again with Tea Cup Tuesday, Tea Time Tuesday and Tuesday Cuppa Tea.
Não queria mostrar a menina assim de pernas para o ar ;) mas só desta maneira se podem ver os três pezinhos em que ela assenta.
That's the case of the little cup with three delicate gilded feet, decorated with flowers and leaves on a light blue ground, which I bought for 2 or 3 euros, saucerless and unmarked. I didn't mean to show the girl turned upside down ;) but only this way can one see the three little feet on which she stands.
Reparei há pouco tempo que as flores pintadas à mão que embelezam a chávena são de rosas bravas, muito semelhantes às dos raminhos usados para enquadrar a paisagem ribeirinha de chávenas de porcelana Vista Alegre, que cá tinha em casa.
Not long ago I noticed that the hand painted flowers that embelish the cup are wild roses, very similar to the ones used to frame the waterfront landscape on Vista Alegre cups, which I already had at home.The landscape, including the detail of the wooden bridge, reminds me of the surroundings of Vista Alegre factory, in Ilhavo, close to a stretch of Aveiro sound.
Esta chávena V.A. é de uma porcelana muito fina, bem translúcida, colorida à mão, num conjunto já centenário ou quase, uma vez que a marca foi usada entre 1881 e 1921.
This V.A. cup was made in a very thin porcelain, quite translucent, hand coloured, in a set that is centennary or nearly so, since its backstamp was used between 1881 and 1921.
E chegada a primavera, por enquanto chuvosa e triste aqui para os meus lados, não tardará muito que comecem a florir as roseiras bravas, que se agarram a muros e a sebes e vão alastrando com belos tufos de flores singelas ou dobradas.
And once Spring has arrived, rainy and sad around here for the time being, it won't take long before wild roses start to bloom, clinging to walls and hedges and spreading in beautiful flower clusters, either single or double.

São destas assim dobradas as que vão colorir a minha sebe, talvez daqui a um mês...
Mas até lá, terá que vir muito sol!!!
They're like these doubles the ones that will colour my hedge, in a month, maybe...
But until then, there must be a lot of sunny weather!!!
Desejo a todos os que me visitam uma boa semana pascal, para muitos em merecidas férias... mas não comam muitas amêndoas! :)
I wish a good Easter week to all those who come to visit, many of them enjoying well deserved holidays...but don't eat too many almond eggs! :)