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Tabletop Conversations: Material Culture and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Bernard L. Herman
Description: Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
T​HE TEA TABLE, upended, spills its contents to the floor. Teacups plunge to their catastrophic fate, and the ceremony of sociability crashes to a conclusion...
Author
Bernard L. Herman
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2006 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.37-57
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00205.002
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20174
Chapter subject tags:Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th centuryLondon (England)--History--18th centuryHogarth, William, 1697-1764Early modern, 1500-1800--HistoryMaterial culture--Great Britain--18th centuryMaterial culture--United States--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryWomen and gender--Britain--18th centuryInterior decoration--England--18th centuryInterior decoration--United States--18th centuryEngland--Social life and customs--18th centuryUnited States--Social life and customs--18th centuryHousehold furnishings--Britain--18th century

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