Mug Don’t forget your Teabrella

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The ceramic mug DON’T FORGET YOUR TEABRELLA is a game. Starting from one of the most commonly used phrases of the British-don’t forget your umbrella-we wanted to create with a play on words an invented name to remind everyone not to forget their tea! The design of the mug shows a Victorian teapot resting on a Victorian parasol. A celebration of the era in which Babingtons was founded, that of Queen Victoria.
The DON’T FORGET YOUR TEABRELLA mug is part of Babingtons’ collection of mugs dedicated to our history. Each of them in fact tells the essence of Babingtons with wit and charm. From the CAT mug, our mascot since the 1950s, to the HIGH TEA FOR HIGH FLYERS mug dedicated to High Tea and those who fly high, to the IT’S ALWAYS TIME FOR TEA mug, which reproduces the antique clock placed in the window from 1893 until the 1970s, , to the I’M A NATURAL TEA DRINKER mug, dedicated to women who love tea.
The DON’T FORGET YOUR TEABRELLA ceramic mug is a new addition to the collection and is already a best seller.
The eccentric design created by our designers encapsulates the many facets of Babingtons and its history. The tale of the love of Tea Time of two women, Isabel Cargill and Anna Maria Babington, who in the late 1800s opened the first tea room in Italy, on the Spanish Steps in the heart of Rome, winning over Romans and visitors from around the world with their teas.
The design represents two items that were very popular with English ladies in the late 1800s: a parasol and a teapot. An ode to the grace and elegance of Afternoon Tea Time.

“Afternoon Tea Time was born in the Victorian era. Kicking off the 5 o’clock ritual would have been Queen Victoria herself on her coronation day, 1838, in the drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace. Taking tea was forbidden for the young Princess: the court governess had, in fact, decided that the brew could not be drunk at every hour of the day as was the custom throughout England. So when Victoria becomes queen, she immediately asks for a good cup of tea to be brought to her.

In all likelihood it was Anne Mary, seventh duchess of Bedford, who instituted Afternoon Tea around 1840. During a vacation at her home in Belvoir Castle, surprised by unusual hunger in the late afternoon, she asked her maid to prepare tea for her and accompany it with bread, butter, jam and pastries. The custom, which from year to year is enriched with small sweet and savory courses and brings with it fashions and revolutions, spreads in the blink of an eye.
The transformation of the Afternoon Tea into a daily appointment imposes a real etiquette. Directions of behavior, as well as menu, for the hostess and guests. The same ritual that, albeit with some inevitable corrections, is still followed today. We, in the hall, observe it with extreme attention. Always with one glance at the past and one at today.”… From the cookbook “Tea with Miss B“

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