ReBloom - 3 pm?: It Must Be Time For Tea...

"Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us."

The Tea Table, Mabel Frances Layng, Oil on Canvas, 1920-1937 (West Park Museum)

Tea in the Bedsitter, Harold Gilman, Oil on Canvas, 1916-1917 (Kirklees Museums & Galleries)

‘Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor’, Herbert James Gunn, Oil on Canvas, 1950 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

The Merry Wives, Paul Montem Clarke, Oil on Canvas, 1949 (The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery)

The Little Invalid, Henry Tonks, Oil on Panel, 1912 (Manchester Art Gallery)

Tea Things, Henry Lamb, Oil on Canvas, 1932 (Birmingham Museums Trust)

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

Jane Austen

Tea with Sickert, Ethel Sands, Oil on Canvas, c. 1911-1912 (Tate)

Still Life with Teapot on Round Table, Anne Redpath, Oil on Hardboard, c. 1945 (National Galleries of Scotland)

The Little Tea Party (Nina Hamnett and Roald Kristian), Walter Sickert, 1915-1916 (Tate)

Ladies Taking Tea, Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont, Oil on Canvas, 1935 (Thoresby Courtyard)

The Tea Table, Harold Harvey, Oil on Canvas, 1920 (Royal Cornwall Museum)

‘Teatime, Birchington’, Lily Delissa Joseph, Oil on Canvas, 1909 (Ben Uri Gallery & Museum)

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to please me.

C.S. Lewis

The Cruise, Mary Adshead, Oil on Canvas, 1934 (Tate)

Mrs Elizabeth Lockhart, Alberto Morrocco, Oil on Canvas, 1948 (University of Aberdeen)

Kitchen at 'The George', John Kynnersley Kirby, Oil on Canvas, 1932 (Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum)

Froanna, the Artist's Wife, Wyndham Lewis, Oil on Canvas, 1937 (Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum)

Interior, Gwen John, Oil on Canvas, 1924 (Manchester Art Gallery)

‘Poodle, Teatime, Norfolk, Mundesley’, Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, Oil on Panel, 1947 (Sir Francis Cook Gallery)

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

Agatha Christie

A Lover of Dickens, Charles Spencelayh, Oil on Canvas, 1947 (Gallery Oldham)

Blue and White China, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, Oil on Canvas (Paisley Museum & Art Galleries)

‘The Burleigh Family Taking Tea at Wilbury Crescent, Hove’, Charles Henry Harrison Burleigh, Oil on Canvas, c. 1947 (Museum of the Home)

The Cafe (Café Conte, London), Frank Graham Bell, Oil on Canvas, 1937-1938 (Manchester Art Gallery)

Still Life by the Fire, William Whitehead Ratcliffe, Oil on Canvas, c. 1914 (Manchester Art Gallery)

The Old Mug, Reginald Robert Tomlinson, Oil on Panel, 1931 (The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery)

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

Oscar Wilde

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