Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup
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File:Wimsatt-cup-saucer.jpg|Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup and saucer set | File:Wimsatt-cup-saucer.jpg|Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup and saucer set | ||
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File:Wimsatt-cup-side-bats.jpg|Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup, side view | File:Wimsatt-cup-side-bats.jpg|Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup, side view | ||
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| + | Designed by the suffragette, poet, historian, geographer, and political activist [[Category:Genevieve B. Wimsatt|Genevieve B. Wimsatt]], the Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup was patented in 1929, and manufactured by the [[:Category:Canonsburg Pottery|Canonsburg Pottery]]. | ||
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File:Wimsatt-cup-side-two-bats.jpg|Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup, cup, side view | File:Wimsatt-cup-side-two-bats.jpg|Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup, cup, side view | ||
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| - | [ | + | The set is both a [{:Category:Symbol Cups and Saucers|symbol cup and saucer]], replete with omens and symbols from Chinese folk-magic, and an [[:Category:Astrology Cups and Saucers|astrological cup and saucer]], outfitted with the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. |
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| - | + | File:Wimsatt-saucer-logo.jpg|saucer backstamp, version A]] | |
| - | + | File:Wimsatt-canonsburg-backstamp-saucer.jpg|saucer backstamp, version B]] | |
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| - | + | It was manufactured in two runs, with differing backstamps in 1931 and 1932. | |
| - | + | It came with an extensive and highly informative [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]], and each run had a different colour of paper stock on the bookle cover; the contents being otherwise identical. | |
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| - | It came with an extensive and highly informative [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]]. | + | |
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<i><b>catherine yronwode</b><br>curator, historian, and docent | <i><b>catherine yronwode</b><br>curator, historian, and docent | ||
Revision as of 19:52, 1 November 2020
 Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup and saucer set |
 Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup, side view |
Designed by the suffragette, poet, historian, geographer, and political activist, the Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup was patented in 1929, and manufactured by the Canonsburg Pottery.
 Chinese Fortune-Telling Teacup, cup, side view |
 cup interior |
The set is both a [{:Category:Symbol Cups and Saucers|symbol cup and saucer]], replete with omens and symbols from Chinese folk-magic, and an astrological cup and saucer, outfitted with the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac.
 saucer]] |
 saucer]] |
 saucer backstamp, version A]] |
 saucer backstamp, version B]] |
It was manufactured in two runs, with differing backstamps in 1931 and 1932.
It came with an extensive and highly informative instruction booklet, and each run had a different colour of paper stock on the bookle cover; the contents being otherwise identical.
DIV-TLR-CTFT
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room
