‘The infusion of a China Plant […] sweetened with the Pith of an Indian Cane’: Consuming, Tasting and Visualising the Empire
In the last decades of the seventeenth century, tea and porcelain vessels imported from China through the trade of the East India Company, as well as sugar coming from the West Indies, made their entry on the aristocratic tables of noble households. A peculiar type of still-life painting emerged con...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2017-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/912 |