Tea for Tuesday

On occasional Tuesdays I'll be featuring a vignette of tea-related items.  Most of them will have one of my teapots; they all have at least one thing you could use at a tea party.

This pitcher, manufactured by Applause, Inc., is 8 inches tall.  Applause produced figurines, mugs, and other ceramics in the 1980s and 1990s based on license deals with Disney, Sesame Street, the California Raisins, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.

This pitcher is not of that ilk.  It's a Dan Gilbert design of a Fairy Basslet.  Fairy Basslets are native to coral reefs, but are widely collected for home aquariums, no doubt because of the vivid colors of the male.  They are carnivorous, aggressive, and hermaphrodite.

 The back side.

The "shell" plate is nothing special - it's from World Market.  The fish plate, a Holland Mold ceramic, is from a recent vintage shopping expedition.