Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… assembled to drink it. While servants would undertake the labour of setting up the equipage and heating the water, the woman host would take the required quantity of tea-leaves from a tea chest, and add them and later the hot water to the …
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