In Europe, a slop bowl, slop basin or waste bowl is one of the components of a traditional

tea set A tea set or tea service is a collection of matching teaware and related utensils used in the preparation and serving of tea. The traditional components of a tea set may vary between societies and cultures. History China The accepted hist ...

. It was used to empty the cold tea and dregs in tea cups before refilling with hot tea, as there were often tea leaves in the bottom of the cups. As with the rest of the tea set, most slop bowls were in pottery, but some in silver. In the 18th century they typically held about half a pint, with some room to spare. Handleless ceramic bowls of this size and shape were also used for drinking tea at breakfast, sometimes known at the time as "breakfast basins", and it is not always possible to assign a particular role to a piece; indeed they may have been made as dual-purpose pieces. They became less common after about 1860, but services in the 1902 Sears Roebuck catalogue still offered them. In 2015 a slop bowl from the famous Swan Service in

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(originally 1737 to 1742) fetched £18,125 at a London auction, compared to £31,250 for a teacup and saucer. Bonham's, London sales of "Fine European Ceramics": 2 December 2015, Lots 46, 44 and 45; 17 June 2015, Lots 61 and 62 respectively
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/ref> File:Waste Bowl, c. 1650-1660, Arita, glazed porcelain, enamels - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC00481.JPG, Arita ware bowl, 1650s,

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, c 1770 File:Waste bowl, c. 1812-1815, Minton, bone china, overglaze enamels, gilding - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC00786.JPG,

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bone china Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from c ...

, c. 1814

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