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At the Tea Table - Elin Danielson-Gambogi , 1904.
Finnish , 1861–1919
Oil on canvas , 60 x 81 cm.
--- Type: Tea and Coffee service (with custom table) Designer/Manufacturer: Carlo Bugatti [X] Region: Turin, Italy Time period: 1907
19th Century rococo revival Swedish birch tea table
Tea time
Tea table with an open window at the time of dawn.
At the Tea Table
Bernard Dunstan (1920-2017)
An English Family at Tea
Artist: Joseph Van Aken (Flemish, c.1699–1749)
Date: c. 1720
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Collection: TATE Britain
Description
In the 18th century, tea was an expensive commodity, as were the items shown here related to its consumption: the tea table, silver and porcelain. A bitter drink, it was sweetened with sugar, produced in the British colonies in the Caribbean with the labour of enslaved African people. The caddy (tea box) is shown in the foreground. Its contents were normally kept locked by the lady of the household, who is shown dispensing the precious leaves. Tea drinking demonstrated wealth, domesticity and genteel informality. In the 18th century, it came to epitomise civilised behaviour for white Europeans.