Art & Tea

I never get tired of admiring these masterpieces. 

The tea from the daily ritual becomes art through the ages and history.

 These are some of my favorite paintings about tea time. 

Enjoy them!:)

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A Rose from a Suitor by Herbert Blande Sparks

Afternoon Tea by W H Matgeston

A Cup of Tea, Walter Granville-Smith

George Dunlop Leslie  Afternoon Tea 188

Marcus Stone

Tea in the Garden, Richard Edward Miller

Francesco Vinea

George Goodwiln Kinlburne

“Afternoon Treat” by George Goodwin Kilburne

George Dunlop Leslie

Five O'Clock by George Dunlop Leslie. 

Mary Cassat 

Tea Time by Albert Lynch

Women taking Tea by Albert Lynch

High tea by Abbott Fuller Grave

Kostantin Korovin

Five O’clock Tea by Julius Leblanc Stewart

Frederick Childe Hassam by  French Tea Garden

“The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white and impersonal with centuries of sun, I think of half-past-four at Manderley, and the table drawn before the library fire. The door flung open, punctual to the minute, and the performance, never-varying, of the laying of the tea, the silver tray, the kettle, the snowy cloth.” 

Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca