Category:Tea Leaf Art
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[[File:Dregs-In-The-Cup.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Dregs in th Cup" depicts a fortune teller giving good news to a shy young woman and her protective suitor; perhaps a marriage is foretold]] | [[File:Dregs-In-The-Cup.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Dregs in th Cup" depicts a fortune teller giving good news to a shy young woman and her protective suitor; perhaps a marriage is foretold]] | ||
| - | The image of a female fortune teller reading tea leaves has, since the 19th century, been a subject of gallery art, popular commercial art, and cartooning | + | The image of a female fortune teller reading tea leaves has, since the 19th century, been a subject of gallery art, popular commercial art, and cartooning. |
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* [[Tea Leaf Reading in Art]] | * [[Tea Leaf Reading in Art]] | ||
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| + | One prominent 19th and 20th century painter who produced many variations on this theme was Harry Roseland. If you like art, you may enjoy my essay on Roseland's art and the Cuban spirit known as La Madama -- it covers several types of African American divination in addition to cup reading. | ||
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* [http://mystictearoom.com/lamadama.html Harry Roseland, The Black Fortune Teller, Mammy, and La Madama] | * [http://mystictearoom.com/lamadama.html Harry Roseland, The Black Fortune Teller, Mammy, and La Madama] | ||
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| + | Even tea leaf symbols have been the subject of artwork. | ||
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| + | * [[Tea Leaf Symbols in Art]] | ||
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| + | While you're here, take a look at some of the vintage tea room postcards, tea room match book covers, tea room menus, and related tea room ephemera we have come across in our own research on the subject of fortune telling by tea cups. | ||
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| + | * [[Tea Room Postcards]] | ||
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| + | Tea company booklets are another fertile field of art related to tasseomancy. | ||
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* [[Tea Company Booklets]] | * [[Tea Company Booklets]] | ||
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| + | *And, finally, we have collected a gallery of photographs and art that idolize and objectify the female tea pluckers of Ceylon. | ||
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| + | * [[The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art]] | ||
Revision as of 23:28, 30 October 2020
The image of a female fortune teller reading tea leaves has, since the 19th century, been a subject of gallery art, popular commercial art, and cartooning.
One prominent 19th and 20th century painter who produced many variations on this theme was Harry Roseland. If you like art, you may enjoy my essay on Roseland's art and the Cuban spirit known as La Madama -- it covers several types of African American divination in addition to cup reading.
Even tea leaf symbols have been the subject of artwork.
While you're here, take a look at some of the vintage tea room postcards, tea room match book covers, tea room menus, and related tea room ephemera we have come across in our own research on the subject of fortune telling by tea cups.
Tea company booklets are another fertile field of art related to tasseomancy.
- And, finally, we have collected a gallery of photographs and art that idolize and objectify the female tea pluckers of Ceylon.
Pages in category "Tea Leaf Art"
The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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