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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ] … In poems (Nahum Tate’s Panacea: a Poem upon Tea [1700], and Peter Motteux’s A Poem in Praise of Tea [1712]), as well as plays (Congreve, Way of the World [1700]), the tea-table was repeatedly represented as a synecdoche for the sociable … Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table Encyclopedia