Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… of these aspects is closely embedded in the discourse of sociability as it was practised and understood in the British Enlightenment. The context for tea-table sociability is the emergence of the consumption of tea, the hot infusion of the …
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