Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 163
articleswhere he had already done the same thing. China had been largely anunknown land to the rest of the world until shortly before that cabinet-makers day. Tea, to be sure, had been introduced some half-century pre-vious, but a shadowy knowledge of the customs of the country was butjust entering… … Queen Anue Cabinet. THE QUEEN ANNE. 150 called the Chinese fashion, Sir William Chambers publishing several platesto that effect, and hints from it thus came to be introduced into almost allthe work of the day, sparingly and delicately, but quite pointedly enoughto be recognized. The love of…
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