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This volume dedicated to the consumption of tea in China since ancient times contains individual images of each of the most popular accessories that are part of the collection of the Portuguese Luís Mendes da Graça. The teapots predominate, which the artist Magdalena Correa photographed for this edition. The first teapots in the collection are from the 19th century. XIII and lack color and decoration. That covers objects produced until the 19th century. XVIII, when the export of Chinese porcelain to Europe increased and became globalized. This exhibition from the collection of Luís Mendes da Graça fills a void and is highly significant, because it documents the history of the tea plant that gave meaning to the incipient globalization that accompanies the geographical discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries. Casa Asia He preserved all the contributions and contributions from the Portuguese volume of the Macau Scientific Cultural Center as he considered them of great interest to the reader. The contributions of Manuela d'Oliveira Martins, Luís Mendes da Graça, Joao Teles e Cunha and Carmen García Ormaechea manage to encourage the curiosity of the reader, who is immediately attracted to these objects out of circulation.

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