Tea lady
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A tea lady provides drinks in an office, factory, hospital, or other place of work. The role under this name began in Britain during World War II, and continues in the National Health Service today. I
A British woman, working as a part-time tea lady, serves tea to a female worker at an aircraft factory in Bristol, 1942
A tea lady in the Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon
Urn
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An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflect
Tea lady
…showed that of those workers who drank more than four cups of tea a day, only 2% of them received it from a tea lady, whereas 66% received it from a tea urn, and 15% from a vending machine. In Australia, Jenny Stewart, Professor of Public Policy in the University of New South Wales, uses the decline of the…
Ancient Roman urn made of alabaster
Ancient Greek cremation urn c. 850 BC
Child funerary vase, Civitella archaeology museum in Chieti, Italy
The Derveni Krater, one of very few large Ancient Greek bronze vessels to survive