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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… encounter, including both men and women, occasioned by the consumption of tea, and typically characterized as focused on conversation and gossip. Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Practices > Eating & Drinking Keywords Conversation Domesticity Exoticism Furniture Gossip Politeness Public sphere Tea Tea-table The tea-table is an object, an … tea-table’ increasingly referred not only to the piece of furniture, but also the company assembled at tea, the kind of conversation established there, and the social gathering in general. Tea-table as idea The tea-table as an idea is …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… advance, the more sociable men become : nor is it possible, that, when enriched with science, and possessed of a fund of conversation, they should be contented to remain in solitude, or live with their fellow-citizens in that distant manner, … They flock into cities; love to receive and communicate knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture. (Hume 107) Ur ban culture, taste, politeness , conversation , all rely on the refinement created by luxury. Thus, shopping for luxury goods such as silk and porcelain, …
Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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