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This volume dedicated to tea consumption in China since ancient times contains individual images of each of the most popular accessories in the collection of Portuguese artist Luís Mendes da Graça. Teapots predominate, photographed for this edition by the artist. Magdalena Correa. The earliest teapots in the collection date from the 16th century. XIII and are devoid of colour and decoration. The former includes objects produced up to the 18th century, when the export of Chinese porcelain to Europe increased and became globalised. This exhibition from the Luís Mendes da Graça collection fills a gap and is highly significant, because it documents the history of the tea plant that gave meaning to the incipient globalisation that accompanied the geographical discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries. Casa Asia He retained all the contributions and contributions from the Portuguese volume of the Macau Scientific and Cultural Center, considering them of great interest to the reader. Manuela d'Oliveira's contributions Martins, Luís Mendes da Graça, Joao Teles e Cunha and Carmen García Ormaechea manages to stimulate the reader's curiosity, who is immediately drawn to these out-of-circulation objects.

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