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Let's have some tea, shall we? ;)
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В самоварах я не понимаю, не мой ареал. Но посуда интересная, чайница антикварная, чашка изящная, подстаканники фигуристые... а что такое на ближнем плане, ложка - не ложка? Булочки тоже заслуживают внимания. Неожиданно, что вместо лимона почему-то апельсин. И на картине на стене тоже из этого сервиза предмет.

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Автор картины - в заголовке, при копировании просьба указывать автора!

Не надо оставлять здесь лайки. Я воспринимаю их как знаки невнимания и неуважения - "на, отвяжись". Если вам нечего сказать о картине - просто идите мимо.

то же на dreamwidth.org

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duathir.livejournal.com

Nov. 5th, 2016 03:21 am (UTC)

This is quaint. It reminds me of Bide-A-Wee (http://greatpoets.livejournal.com/3742494.html).

med_cat

Nov. 5th, 2016 07:56 pm (UTC)

Yes, I can see why :)

acelightning.livejournal.com

Nov. 5th, 2016 04:12 am (UTC)

Nov. 5th, 2016 07:57 pm (UTC)

:)

The artist is Irina Gaiduk, as it says in the entry's title.

And yes, I agree ;) I like my tea plain, too.

Nov. 6th, 2016 04:13 am (UTC)

Nov. 6th, 2016 07:40 pm (UTC)

...yes...that's why I put "A painting by Irina Gaiduk" in the entry's title--is it not showing on your page?

Nov. 7th, 2016 08:20 am (UTC)

Nov. 7th, 2016 09:41 pm (UTC)

Ah, OK :) Just wanted to make sure it showed.

You know that's not blini and caviar in the picture, though, right? It's vatrushki and loose-leaf tea ;)

Nov. 8th, 2016 09:30 am (UTC)

Nov. 8th, 2016 10:57 am (UTC)

Absolutely re: cheese danish :)

Ceramic spoon to go with the ceramic set, I suppose? The ceramic tea glass holders are unusual, too.

Anyway, one can't be completely sure, but the consensus in comments to the original entry, in levkonoe's journal, was that it seems to be tea, rather than caviar; also, if it were caviar, there's be a few other edibles on the table, usually.

benicek.livejournal.com

Nov. 5th, 2016 03:58 pm (UTC)

I remember reading Chekov back in the days before the internet and reading descriptions of people gathering around the samovar. I had no idea what a samovar was, so I looked it up in a dictionary. That helped a bit but the dictionary wasn't illustrated. For years I was left wondering what the hell a samovar looked like.

Nov. 5th, 2016 07:59 pm (UTC)

Hee hee :)

Samovars have gone electric some decades ago, and you can even buy ones that are purely decorative, such as this Khokhloma-painted wooden one:

Nov. 5th, 2016 11:02 pm (UTC)

I was surprised to learn the purpose of the teapot on top, to hold concentrated tea which is then watered down. Seems a strange way to make it, to my British mind. Also in the Chekov stories they were putting cream in it, which again seemed a strange idea. When I visited (Soviet) Russia in 1989 they gave us plenty of tea, but no cream or milk for it.

Nov. 6th, 2016 04:12 am (UTC)

Nov. 6th, 2016 07:42 pm (UTC)

Interesting :)

Most commonly, tea is drunk with lemon in Russia, although some people do put milk in theirs.

And yes, that is the usual way to brew tea; you brew straight in the teapot, then? I didn't realize ;)

(of course, in the last several years, we've all grown lazy and have been using teabags...teapot is hiding in the back of the cupboard...;)

Nov. 7th, 2016 08:31 am (UTC)

Nov. 7th, 2016 09:42 pm (UTC)

I see :)

I'm not a big tea drinker myself...and yes, tea glass holders, hee, husband likes them and so I bought him a pair, some years ago... (he likes tea more than I do :P)

tamsin

Nov. 5th, 2016 10:59 pm (UTC)

This looks inviting! Makes you want to take a seat.

It does, doesn't it? ;)

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