Fortune Telling Ceramic Teacup
Comes with a booklet explaining how to use and symbol meanings.
Tea reading or Tasseography is the art of identifying symbols and interpreting messages found in the shapes and configurations of tea leaves. Also known as Tasseomancy or Tassology. The terms derive from the French work tasse (cup) and the Greek suffixes-graph (writing), -logy (study of), and -mancy (divination).
It was likely that tea leaf reading began soon after the discovery of tea by the Chinese Emperor Shen Nun in 2737 BC.
Tea leaf reading began to grow in popularity during the 1800's as a means of telling one's fortune spread by gypsies throughout Europe. Subsequently, tea reading became popular in the Victorian era in the UK after tea was brought to England from China.