Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… & Ceremonies Practices > Eating & Drinking Mots-clés 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 … 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 the discourse of sociability as it was practised … in London and provincial cities by the 1670s, the same was not true for tea, even though tea was also available for public sale from the 1650s. Tea drinking was not commonplace in Britain until the second decade of the eighteenth century …
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