Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… other comestibles by those in the middle and upper stations of life, tea preparation was undertaken by the hands of the ranking women of the family, who made the tea-drink in the presence of the company assembled to drink it. While servants …
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