Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… on distinctively British qualities by the mid-eighteenth century. Tea drinking had broader appeal in Britain than in France, where tea drinking and its paraphernalia was understood as much an English custom, ‘ le thé à l’anglaise ’, as it …
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