Topic: ID request for dainty coffee cup & saucer please

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Hi again, I've been trying to pin these down 

Anyone got any thoughts on the origins of this dainty coffee c&s?

duck egg blue glass with definite orange glow when held to strong light source, ground rims, clear glass handle, saucer is cased in clear glass and much thicker. Can't imagine the cups surviving much use!

thought they might be classed as demitasse but seem the wrong shape

cup is 7.5cm wide x 3.5 deep / saucer is 11cm wide x 2.5 cm deep / combined weight 133g

look forward to comments good or bad lol (but I like them)

cheers!

Mel

[Paul S.]

sorry Mel, can't tell you who made this pair, but can say that if you are getting a fiery orange glow when held to a strong light, then almost certainly these are opalescent.    Presumably, you've acquired these from within the U.K.?        Regret I've not previously come across the word 'demitasse' - would you care to explain

[glassobsessed]

Demitasse - half cup (French, demi - half, tasse - cup).

John

[Paul S.]

many thanks John

[chopin-liszt]

 
Sometimes with opaque greeny glass you get an ambery "fire" when you look at it with the light coming through - but it's not opalesence - it's the opaque green glass reflecting green wavelengths off the surface (the one you're not looking at) and only transmitting the other wavelengths - which make an ambery colour.

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Hi Paul,

as John says, it translates to 'half cup' for espresso coffee and the like - seems to have been popular in the 50's-60's I think, in both china and glass

There was a lot of Fire King jade demitasse cups about a few years back - heres one - you've gotta love those prices!!

Thanks Sue, I'll go and have a play but there is certainly an opalescent 'look/feel' to the glass

Cheers, Mel

http://www.trocadero.com/stores/cheshire/items/1131178/item1131178.html

[Paul S.]

thanks Mel  -  I've led such a sheltered life you see

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Rats!! you know I said

................................ Can't imagine the cups surviving much use!

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[chopin-liszt]

oh dear ..... 

Before or after you finished the coffee?
And did you enjoy the coffee?

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lol no Sue, much worse than that.....one of those slow motion moments when I knocked something which set off a chain of events that ended up with a large langham penguin head-butting the poor cup.

Never even got to try it out.

Lesson learned - need more space for my glass!

Mel