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In Europe, a slop bowl, slop basin or waste bowl is one of the components of a traditional tea set. 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
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File:Waste Bowl, c. 1650-1660, Arita, glazed porcelain, enamels - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC00481.JPG, Arita ware bowl, 1650s,
In Europe, a slop bowl, slop basin or waste bowl is one of the components of a traditional tea set. 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
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catalogue still offered them.
In 2015 a slop bowl from the famous Swan Service in Meissen porcelain
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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
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, London sales of "Fine European Ceramics": 2 December 2015, Lots 46, 44 and 45; 17 June 2015, Lots 61 and 62 respectivelyAuction results search
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Japanese export porcelain
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File:Slop Basin LACMA M.78.154.62.jpg, Silver, Philadelphia
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, c 1770
File:Waste bowl, c. 1812-1815, Minton, bone china, overglaze enamels, gilding - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC00786.JPG, Mintons
Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, ...
, English bone china
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, c. 1814
References
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* http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionarywastebowl.html Teaware Pottery shapes