Breakfast dishes

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A tête-à-tête breakfast dish

Breakfast dishes (also Dejeuner tableware is known) specifically designed for use in the levee and the breakfast developed eating utensils , the consummation of coffee , tea or chocolate in bed or at a small table in the bedroom or dressing room. The molding was and is done almost exclusively in porcelain , including the accompanying tray. Breakfast dishes include the Trembleuse , the Service Solitaire and Tête-à-Tête. Breakfast crockery is rarely made these days and is rarely used.

Breakfast service

Breakfast service model “Neuzierrat” (tray, chocolate jug, teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl, cup with saucer, tea can) in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts

A breakfast service is a set of crockery items that belong together and have a uniform shape and the same patterns (decor). A distinction is made between the Solitaire, which is intended for one person, and the Tête-à-Tête, which is intended for two people. Breakfast dishes consist of:

  • a serving tray , also known as a coffee or tea board
  • a small teapot , coffee pot or chocolatière
  • a milk or cream jug
  • a sugar bowl
  • one (Solitaire) or two (Tête-à-Tête) cups with saucers
  • a scoop (optional for a breakfast service for tea)
  • a tea urn (optional for a breakfast service for tea)

At the noble courts, breakfast crockery was not only used for lever or breakfast, but also for snacks that were taken in private rooms.

See also

literature

  • Alexa-Beatrice Christ, Bettina John-Willeke: Breakfast at court: 100 years of princely porcelain. The Grand Ducal Hessian Porcelain Collection Darmstadt 1908-2008. Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-89790-287-7 .
  • Kunsthaus Lempertz (ed.): Decorative Arts . Catalog for auction 968 on November 19, 2010. Cologne 2010, p. 53–55 ( lempertz.com [PDF; 8.3 MB ; accessed on May 6, 2013]).
  • Till Alexander Stahlbusch: White gold from Meissen . Service and harness. Battenberg, Regenstauf 2009, ISBN 978-3-86646-034-8 ( gietl-verlag.de [PDF; 1000 kB ; accessed on May 6, 2013]).
  • Karin Tebbe: A breakfast set of the Electress Elisabeth Augusta with allegorical representations . Ed .: Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg (=  work of art of the month . No. 279 ). Heidelberg June 2008 ( museum-heidelberg.de [PDF; 700 kB ; accessed on May 6, 2013]).
  • Tillmann Prüfer: Coffee culture: The rule of pots, why are there no more pots? An obituary . In: Zeitmagazin , No. 18/2009.

Web links

Wiktionary: Breakfast dishes  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Till Alexander Stahlbusch: White gold from Meissen. Service and dishes . 2009, ISBN 978-3-86646-034-8 , p. 15.
  2. ↑ Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff Metternich, Manfred Meinz : The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg . A cultural history in the mirror of Fürstenberg porcelain. Ed .: Richard Borek Foundation and Foundation Nord / LB. tape 2 . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2004, ISBN 3-7913-2921-9 , pp. 504 .
  3. ↑ Karin Tebbe: A breakfast set of the Electress Elisabeth Augusta with allegorical representations . In: Artwork of the month , Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg, issue 279, 2008, p. 1.