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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]

… Résumé The tea-table is an object, an event, and an idea, the context of 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 tea drinking. …

Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… Résumé In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was coded as domestic and feminine. The production of sugar was closely linked to transatlantic slavery, as … through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumer culture Tea Tea-table Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Boycott Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth …

Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]

… scale also meant that accompanying objects and settings could be represented in detail, facilitating the portrayal of tea parties, assemblies and card games. Objects > Art & Luxury Mots-clés Portraiture Painting William Hogarth George Vertue Card game Tea-table As the practices, objects and sites of sociability flourished in early eighteenth-century Britain, so a new … an established use of the label to describe genre paintings by French and Netherlandish artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau and Egbert van Heemskerk. 2  However, at the end of that decade, Vertue’s occasional use of the term becomes a …

Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]

… impact on employment and free trade. Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Luxury Mandeville Hume Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Consumerism Women The rise of consumer goods and consumerism made luxury a much-debated topic throughout the … by an elite but also by members of the middle class, even working people, in sociable contexts, for instance at the tea-table (china) and dances (dress), likewise in public leisure spaces. 3   Eighteenth-century Britain saw an ongoing … part (Berg 39). Documenting taste and social status, many luxury items, such as the china on an eighteenth-century tea-table, were represented for visiting friends and neighbours. One luxurious innovation of the later eighteenth …

Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]

… Résumé The rise of the leisure press after 1690 caused the appearance of new forms of middle-class sociability. The tea-table is a case in point, around which the two sexes gathered, read periodical essays together, which provided … readers to devote a daily quarter of an hour to reading the paper, claiming that it would later conveniently ‘furnish tea table talk.’ 1 1 . The Spectator n° 4, ed D. F. Bond (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.) vol. 1, p. 21. The … to be commented upon and therefore served to popularize and redefine emerging, fashionable group activities such as tea or coffee drinking. Taking tea was a genteel form of sociability which became increasingly associated with femininity …

Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… as with rare objects exhibited in places of sociability such as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that North America, the Bahamas, Canary Islands, the … as with rare objects exhibited in such places of sociability as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and so forth. Across Europe and in particular in such a polished and commercial nation … and menageries. 8  In such places of sociability, visitors, guests and spectators could expect to take afternoon tea while watching and conversing about living or dead animals.   6 . Joseph Addison, The Spectator (no. 69, 19 May …