Blue is my favorite color, but you already know that if you've been reading my blog for any length of time.
I know every teacup we have in service at The Whitney, so imagine my surprise when I was straightening the teacups in the Music Room last Saturday and saw an unfamiliar dark blue teacup pushed back in the corner of a shelf. I pulled it out for a closer look and saw it was a beautiful Lomonosov Imperial teacup in the "Forget Me Not" pattern. It was too beautiful to put into service where it would eventually get broken, and I have a small collection of Lomonosov porcelain. How The Whitney acquired it I don't know, but I immediately asked my boss if I could swap it out for one of my bone china teacups at home. He said I could just have it. Hooray!
I had no idea at least three of the servers had their eye on it too. I found out later it was one of the servers who hid it in the shelf corner. It made its appearance sometime during the week after I worked the previous Saturday. I was glad I spotted it and asked for it when I did, because it wouldn't have stayed at The Whitney long. I had to rearrange my china cabinet to make it fit, but it's happy with my other pieces of Lononosov. [Second shelf from top, right side.]
I'll finish this post with a cute quote I read yesterday online: "You're not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but that's okay because not everyone deserves a sip." ;-)
