Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… Surviving evidence suggests the first tea-tables so designated were imported from China or India, by the East India Companies of both England (EIC) and the Netherlands (VOC). Such tables resembled a tray, set upon legs, made of highly …
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