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46775	Roth, Rodris	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			.txt	text/plain	14566	1148	77	TEA DRINKING IN 18TH-CENTURY AMERICA: ITS ETIQUETTE AND EQUIPAGE [Illustration: _An English Family at Tea._ Detail from an oil painting tea table whose equipage included much more than teapot, cups, and Tea was the social beverage of the 18th century; serving it was a sign painting _An English Family at Tea_ (frontispiece). well-appointed tea table, for a teapot of silver or fragile fashionable silver teapot and white ceramic cup, saucer, and sugar occasion Ferdinand Bayard, a late-18th-century observer of American tea and 1768 teapots, cups and saucers, teaspoons, and tea canisters were naked Table, but on the Cloth set a large Tea Board with the Cups."[45] Some of the 18th-century paintings depicting tea tables with cloths do In the early 18th century, tea sets of silver were uncommon if not [Illustration: Figure 11.--Silver tea set consisting of teapot, sugar of blue and white China Tea-Cups and Saucers," or "enamell'd, pencill'd _The Tea-Table._ English.	./cache/46775.txt	./txt/46775.txt