Rare tea and precious sugar When a 17th-century English gentlewoman took a little jewel-encrusted key from her slender waist and opened her finely crafted tea-chest, before her she would find two tea caddies, one containing black tea and the other green tea, and between them a little receptacle which some believe was used to mix the tea leaves.
十七世紀英國貴婦淑女，從小蠻腰間取出的鑲著貴重珠寶的小鎖匙，打開精工製作的茶匣時，她面對的，是兩個分別盛著紅茶與綠茶的茶罐，其間還有一個小盅，有人相信這是用來混茶之用。