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Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage

Title: Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961

Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage

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Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14

TEA DRINKING IN 18TH-CENTURY AMERICA: ITS ETIQUETTE AND EQUIPAGE

[Illustration: _An English Family at Tea._ Detail from an oil painting attributed to Joseph Van Aken, about 1720. In collection of Victoria and Albert Museum. Crown Copyright. (Color plate courtesy of the _Saturday Book_.)]

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_Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage--_ _By Rodris Roth_

_In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home was an established social custom with a recognized code of manners and distinctive furnishings. Pride was taken in a correct and fashionable tea table whose equipage included much more than teapot, cups, and saucers._