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saucer vessel

concept · 1 mention

a dish placed under a cup, sometimes used for drinking tea by cooling it

Other senses of “saucer”

unspecified tableware

Connections

The concepts, people, and places this entity is most linked to by claims — node size is mention count, colour is type, dashed nodes are other senses of the same word.

saucersaucer (—)saucer (tableware)cup — 1 shared claimThe Old Maid — 1 shared claimEnglish women — 1 shared claimcupThe Old MaidEnglish women
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Defining properties

Perspectives

Claims grouped by the voice that makes them.

Rodris Roth (author)

  • saucer placed under cup on table cup ⟨table setting practice⟩
    assertsneutralsource: tea-pg46775
    On the table a saucer seems always to have been placed under the cup whether the cup was right side up or upside down.
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The final sentence explicitly asserts that 'On the table a saucer seems always to have been placed under the cup whether the cup was right side up or upside down,' which exactly matches the subject-predicate-object relationship of the claim.
    • qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (the passage itself states this observation). The stance is appropriately 'asserts' as the author makes a direct statement. The sentiment is neutral, matching the factual tone of the passage. The time qualifier is correctly null since the passage does not specify a particular time period for this practice (it discusses 18th century practices generally but this observation about saucer placement is presented as a general fact about table setting). The context 'table setting practice' accurately reflects the passage's discussion of how saucers were used in table settings. The quote is verbatim from the passage and directly supports the claim about saucers being placed under cups on tables.
  • The Old Maid depicts individual using saucer for tea saucer published in 1777 ⟨English satirical print⟩
    assertsneutralsource: tea-pg46775
    An English satirical print, _The Old Maid_ (fig. 14), published in 1777, was the only illustration found that depicted an individual using a dish for tea, or, to be exact, a saucer.
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The exact quote confirms that 'The Old Maid' (1777) was an English satirical print that depicted an individual using a saucer for tea, which is precisely what the claim asserts.
    • qualifier_fidelity 0.85 pass — The claim is largely faithful to the passage. The viewpoint, stance, sentiment, time, and context all correctly represent what the passage states. However, there is a minor discrepancy in the predicate: the passage states the print 'depicted an individual using a dish for tea, or, to be exact, a saucer' - meaning the individual used a dish/saucer for tea drinking (saucer sipping). The claim's predicate 'depicts individual using saucer for tea' is accurate but could be more precise about the specific action of saucer sipping that the passage emphasizes.

Peter Kalm

  • English women did not pour tea from cup into saucer to cool it saucer ⟨tea drinking practice⟩
    assertsneutralsource: tea-pg46775
    when the English women [that is, of English descent] drank tea, they never poured it out of the cup into the saucer to cool it, but drank it as hot as it came from the teapot.
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — This claim is directly supported by the passage. The quoted material from Peter Kalm explicitly states that English women (of English descent) never poured tea from cup into saucer to cool it, but instead drank it hot from the teapot, which is exactly what the claim asserts.
    • qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint correctly attributes the claim to Peter Kalm as a named source. The stance is accurately marked as 'asserts' since Kalm states this as fact. The sentiment is appropriately neutral. The time qualifiers are correctly set to null since the passage provides no specific temporal information about when Kalm observed this. The context 'tea drinking practice' appropriately reflects the passage's restriction to this specific domain. The quote appears verbatim in the passage and directly supports the claim about English women not pouring tea into saucers to cool it.

Change over time

published in 1777
  • depicts individual using saucer for tea The Old Maid