For #NationalTeaDay 🫖☕️: #Teapot with #fossil decoration
British, Staffordshire, c. 1760–65
Salt-glazed stoneware w/ enamel decoration
4 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (10.8 × 18.4 cm)
Met 37.22.6a,b: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197991
“Though it's got a surprisingly modern look, this teapot was made in the 18th-century in Staffordshire—the heart of Britain's pottery industry. The area’s limestone yielded prehistoric fossils, and potters often turned them into whimsical motifs for teapots.”
I drunk my own weight in tea queuing for vinyl Friday night. I keep forgetting about this every year and we should have done something. But I was awake for 40 hours in the end yesterday. So I'm just going to rest with a cuppa today.
What forms the scum on tea, and what makes its stimulant effect differ from that of coffee? For #NationalTeaDay, this graphic has the answers 🫖 https://wp.me/s4aPLT-tea