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Cups and Saucers is a one-act "satirical musical sketch" written and composed by George Grossmith. The piece pokes fun at the china collecting craze of the later Victorian era, which was part of the Aesthetic movement later satirised in Patience and The Colonel. The story of the sketch involves an engaged man and woman who each schemes to sell ...
Crucibulum spinosum, common name the spiny cup-and-saucer snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup-and-saucer snails. Description
Cup-and-saucer snail (Calyptraeidae) Cup and Saucer Stakes, a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race held annually in October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario; Cup and Saucer (string figure) Cup-and-saucer vine (Cobaea scandens), a perennial ornamental plant species native of Tropical America; Cups and Saucers, a one-act "satirical musical ...
Together, Robertson and the Bancrofts are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as 'drawing-room comedy' or 'cup and saucer drama', so-named because real cups and saucers were used as props. The Bancrofts gave Robertson an unprecedented amount of directorial control over his plays, which was a key step to institutionalising ...
Cabinet Cup and Saucer- 'Snipe Shooting' and 'Worm Fishing', Worcester porcelain, Chamberlain's Factory, c. 1813–16 In European porcelain, a cabinet cup is an unusually richly decorated cup, normally with a saucer, that did not form part of a tea service but was sold singly (or in a pair) to give as a present or to collectors.
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Vienna porcelain trembleuse cup with gallery from the du Paquier period, 1730 Gobelet et soucoupe enfoncé by Sèvres c. 1776. A trembleuse, tasse trembleuse [1]: 32 or chocolate cup, [2] is a pottery drinking cup and saucer with the saucer given a raised holding area, called the "gallery", in which the cup sits more securely than in the normal style.
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