Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… in Britain until the second decade of the eighteenth century or later. While coffee consumption was closely associated with the public socializing of the coffee-house, tea was strongly marked, from its inception, by its association with high status socializing, with women and the royal court, and with the domestic or private sphere. It is also worth noting that all tea consumed in …
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