Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… of domestic manufacture, whose purpose was to facilitate tea drinking. As an event, the practice of tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the … > Rituals & Ceremonies Practices > Eating & Drinking Keywords Conversation Domesticity Exoticism Furniture Gossip Politeness Public sphere Tea Tea-table The tea-table is an object, an event, and an idea: that is to say, it is at once an item of furniture, a gathering at which tea is consumed, and a hybrid form of polite heterosocial sociability that occupies a liminal zone between public and private spheres. Each of these aspects is closely embedded in …
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