Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… which is the emergence of tea drinking in Britain in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. As an item of furniture, the tea-table is a small table, imported from Asia or of domestic manufacture, whose purpose was to facilitate … occasioned by the consumption of tea, and typically characterized as focused on conversation and gossip. Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Practices > Rituals & 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 …
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