Engineering:Cabaret service

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Cabaret service (ca. 1865)

The term cabaret service (also known as dejeuner service[1]) is used to designate small tea or coffee services. A typical cabaret service includes (in addition to cups and saucers[1]) a teapot or a coffeepot (with a lid and occasionally a stand[2]), a sugar bowl, a creamer, sometimes a tray[3][4] and cutlery.[5] In the 18th century a spoon boat was frequently a part of the set.[6] The tea- and coffeepots are small (one pint in a service for two, so called tête-à-tête, half a pint in a solitaire service for one),[3] the cups and saucers are frequently also smaller than the ones in the regular sets.[1] Tête-à-tête services were popular as wedding gifts.

The cabaret services originated in France, where the tea drinking was not ritualized, and thus small-scale arrangements for one or two were appropriate.[7] The cabaret services characteristically utilized unusual designs and extensive decorations,[4] this "jewel-like" appearance hints at marketing oriented towards ladies.[7]

In the 18th century silver (gilded) cabaret services with fitting cases were made for travel.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Edwards 2017, p. 188.
  2. Edwards 2022, p. 71.
  3. 3.0 3.1 MFA, Boston. "Five-piece coffee and tea set for one". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/584295/fivepiece-coffee-and-tea-set-for-one. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Edwards 2017, p. 269.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Boger & Boger 1957.
  6. George Savage; Harold Newman (1985). "spoon-tray". in John Patrick Cushion. An Illustrated Dictionary of Ceramics: Defining 3,054 Terms Relating to Wares, Materials, Processes, Styles, Patterns, and Shapes from Antiquity to the Present Day. Thames and Hudson. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-500-27380-7. OCLC 12938517. https://books.google.com/books?id=L3b8nQEACAAJ. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Hildyard 1999, p. 69.

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