Tea Party Table Setting
Consumption of tea, coffee and chocolate was a significant social activity in the Fairfax household and the table is laid with a mid-eighteenth century Chinese 'Nakin' tea set and a silver kettle and coffee pot.
Tea Party Table Setting
The elegant mahogany tray-top tea table, which is probably Irish, supports a selection of Chinese export famille rose porcelain, c.1750, used in the tea ceremony. Notice the mahogany tea caddy which locks, in order to protect the precious black and green teas.
This object is located in the Saloon
It is categorised as Miscellaneous
This page was last updated on 3 May 2007