Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… 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 … taste and patterns of consumption, and in this way they were distinctive. 2 2 . Ann Martin, ‘Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America’, in Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture can tell us about … England’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (vol. 23, 1994), p. 131-145. Martin, Ann, ‘Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America’, in Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg (eds.), Furnishing the Eighteenth …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
Encyclopedia