teacup

He came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.

This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.

The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.

Arthur adjusted his spectacles, his weathered hands tracing the rim of a porcelain teacup with the precision of a lifelong engineer.