Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… Although such tea-tables were expensive, they were a central part of the polite equipment of tea service, alongside porcelain teacups and slop bowls, silver teapots and teaspoons, and the tea itself. An item of furniture, in this sense …
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