She took the orders of customers with an empty, far-away, idiotic smile; she drifted about with plates and teapots like an active sleep-walker.
Heavier chairs and more solid tables, furniture from the old home, were mixed with these, and a capacious family sideboard bore a multitude of brown earthen teapots of different sizes.
Wood is, I dare say, not so good a conductor as metal, and it is for that reason, no doubt, that silver teapots have always wooden handles.
Among exceptions not required to be assayed were metal spouts to china, stone or earthenware teapots and shirt buckles or brooches.
They are a feature present in many examples not only of teapots but many other articles made in plated ware.
Newcastle produced many tankards, teapots and coffee pots of plain character and simple form that Sheffield in the early days might have essayed to copy.
I collect teapotswithout handles; then they cannot be broken off when they are used at home.
It might have been observed that there were two teapots on the table, a large one and a small, and that the captain helped himself out of the small one, and did not take either milk or sugar.
What a contrast between the miserable, sickly, slow-dribbling silver and other teapots of the land, and this great teapot of the sea!
Or twoteapots may be used, the beverage being strained from one teapot into the other.
I tell yer it's all up with me, and the Teapots can't hurt me worse than what I've got now.
Then Barkins said quietly-- "I thought it would be only the teapots that were broken.
And I hope the John Teapots 'll get hold of you, you miserable little cad!
The two Teapots remained vacant; the Teapot was thronged.
Jones, "unless it's to see them all going to the two Teapots opposite.
Sometimes the teapots were made in the form of Chinese characters.
A pair of powder-blue teapots relieved with panels decorated with flowers in "famille verte.
Some of these teapotstook the form of curious sea-horses represented as swimming in waves of green and amidst seaweed.
There were two teapots of tea on a chair, a big tub of pommeloes on the floor, and a glazed red earthenware bowl full of ripe bananas on another chair.
On these men, scarcely to be called clothed, were lying, smoking or chewing the betel-nut, and all had teapots in covered baskets within convenient reach.
I am sorry to say there are gentlemen who sell teapots for the southern states which are only meant for the northern ones, and others who sell for the north what is meant for the south.
They are for northern consumption, gentlemen, without the smallest doubt, and you know that many teapots will support the cold of the north, but are worth nothin' when they git into a southern climate.
She had a reputation for picking up teapots from under her chair, and our hostess seemed somewhat disappointed that she did not accord me some miracle.
I hear of your lifting teapots from beneath your chair, summoning lost jewels, conversing with Mahatmas a thousand miles away.
At first, only teapots of Oriental origin imported with the cargos of tea were available, for the teapot had been unknown to Europeans before the introduction of the beverage.
Ceramic canisters of blue and white, and red and gold, could be purchased to match other tea furnishings of the same ware, and silver tea canisters often were fashioned to harmonize with the silver teapots of the period.
Teapots based on Chinese models and often decorated with Chinese motifs were fashioned in ceramic and silver.
About mid-century, teapots of inverted pear-shape, associated with the rococo style, began to appear.
The famous Chinese lyric which is painted on almost all the teapots of the Empire is highly poetical.
China teacups and saucers were about half their present size; and china teapots and coffee-pots with silver nozzles were a mark of superior finery.
Thus we find trays shaped like leaves, cups like lotus leaves, teapots like melons, and one remarkable specimen in the form of an elephant, with a saddle brilliantly painted on grounds of red and gold.
The brown teapots of this factory were at one time very fashionable in England.
Will isn't on teapots now," quoth Bertram, before his brother had a chance to reply.
I have tampered with no buns, you will remark, andteapots have been far from me.
Some interesting copper and silver teapots we were also able to get from him, and I remember his showing Wollaston many pieces of finely embroidered Chinese silk.
Here were some beautifully chased silver teapots and other interesting pieces of silver, richly decorated in relief.
This Castleford factory, under the proprietor, David Dunderdale, commenced to make cream ware, black basalt, and the usual stoneware teapots with ornaments in relief.
From 1786 he appears to have produced black basalt tea ware; his fine teapots with the seated figure at the apex are well known, and his unglazed cane-coloured ware is much prized, with its simple decorations in lines of green and blue.
The lids of teapots often have a bird, with outstretched wings.
There is, too, a trace of the grotesque discernible in some of these teapotsand a subtle humour too rarely found in English pottery.
The bright natural colours of that interesting vegetable were reproduced by Whieldon, who made this type as well as melon and pineapple teapots and coffee-pots.
Silver models provided many a fine shape for Wedgwood, his cream ware and his basaltteapots are bodily taken from Sheffield.
Both black and red teapots were made by Elers and ornaments in Chinese style added in relief.
Then there are the heart-shaped teapots with the spout incongruously representing an arm resting on the neck of a swan.
These teapots were supposed to have been made for lovers.
Sturgis of Broad Street, by which teapots are cast whole, instead of having the spouts and handles soldered on.
The manufacture of such articles as teapots is equally interesting.
When steel buckles and gilt buttons have had their day, Britannia teapots and brass bedsteads still hold their own.
Teapots have from time to time been a collector's fancy, and persons have again and again got together four or five hundred, of all patterns and decorations.
Another peculiar fabric has produced very thinteapots of a gray stone-ware, showing the marks of the workman's hands.
No teapotsequal those of Banko for producing a delicate infusion of tea, and all lovers of tea patronize them; they are fragile to a degree, the paste being as thin as a wafer.
Come, do you suppose we could begin to pack these teapots to-night?
And, with a smile that was meant to be quizzical, William turned and began to shift the teapots about again.
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