Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… Image ‘The Tea-Table’, © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), 369584001, c. 1720. Abstract The tea-table is an object, an event, and an idea, the context of which is the emergence of tea drinking in Britain in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. As an item of furniture, the tea-table is …
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