Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… the best known collectors of porcelain and other chinoiserie which were essential to create appropriate settings for the ritual of tea drinking. Literary and non-literary depictions of chinoiserie can be found in Alexander Pope's Rape of the … exchanges between East and West, between Oriental and European cultures of sociability. By combining European rituals of politeness with Chinese teaware, upper-class women were able to activate a change of taste in the circle of … fashion and life inside a harem and her narrative deeply influenced the way Europeans envisioned the Ottomans and their rituals of sociability. Her letters circulated among her social circle stimulating a broad admiration for Ottoman …
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