Tea pair is a great gift

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Sometimes a gift for a person who is not too familiar (for example, a work colleague or a distant relative), coming from the heart and soul, is not so easy to choose. Either the funds are not enough for something global, or the fantasy fails. One of these not exorbitantly expensive, but memorable and at the same time practical presentations can be a tea pair. Especially if a person likes to drink tea at his leisure in a homely cozy atmosphere or during a work break. Then, for sure, unlike many pointless trinkets, the tea pair will not gather dust in the closet, but will be used for its intended purpose. And as a result, it will please the recipient more than once!

What is a tea pair

This is a small, usually gift set, which consists of two items: a cup and a saucer. Unlike similar devices for drinking coffee, a tea pair looks more impressive in size and has more rounded shapes (although not always, but more on that below). Cup by volume - 220-300 milliliters, but grotesque,more voluminous. The saucer is usually used as a cup holder. Sometimes the set is completed with a third item - a spoon or a glass for cool water.

Variety of shapes and types

The classic "Russian" saucer for tea drinking includes a recess so that you can also sip seagulls from it. In diameter, it is 1.5-2 times larger than a cup, proportional in size and round. But at present, a gift tea pair (see photo below) can be both original shapes and very diverse colors - with all kinds of inscriptions and without them.

Gone are the days when only traditional cups and saucers with flowers and gold rims were on sale. Now you can buy, for example, a rectangular Japanese-style saucer with a cup of avant-garde shapes and colored with hieroglyphs. As well as pot-bellied cups in the form of a UFO or in the form of some fairy-tale character. In general, such models cannot be called too practical; rather, these are specimens gravitating towards souvenirs. But you can drink tea from them, no matter what.

Today, author's works of art are especially popular, possessing authenticity, high originality and originality, made in addition in a single copy, which increases their significance. Of course, they are more expensive, but if you want to give something nice, you can not be stingy.

What it's made of

Of course, the most popular and prestigious, perhaps, remainsa traditional porcelain tea pair, as a kind of symbol of Russian merchant tea drinking. But although porcelain is a wonderful and time-tested material that is great for a hot and invigorating drink, has excellent quality and retains heat, today you can buy glass, ceramic, acrylic and even steel tea pairs in stores, which also probably have their right to exist, and besides, they look more modern.

History and present

Be that as it may, tea parties that came to us from China and other eastern countries remain in trend today. For example, in China, the famous Gong Fu Cha tea ceremonies are held. During the process of drinking tea, tea pairs are used, which include three items at once: a cup-bowl, a glass, a narrow and tall one, and a long saucer in which both previous items are placed. And each participant of such a ceremony is imbued with the unity of harmony and composition.

Of course, we are not in Japan or China, and cult tea ceremonies are, to put it mildly, less common here. But a family or friendly tea party with a good dessert has not yet brought grief and bad mood to anyone. And for those who like to dream alone, a tea pair is also a wonderful gift, denoting a zone of relaxation and comfort, even if only for a few minutes!