The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art
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File:Plucking-Salada-Tea-Postcard-Front.jpg|The Salada Tea Plucker, Ceylon, postcard front, 1930s. | File:Plucking-Salada-Tea-Postcard-Front.jpg|The Salada Tea Plucker, Ceylon, postcard front, 1930s. | ||
File:Advertisenment-Tea-Girl-Safety-Matches-India.jpg|Tea Girl Safety Matches box cover, India, circa 1930s. | File:Advertisenment-Tea-Girl-Safety-Matches-India.jpg|Tea Girl Safety Matches box cover, India, circa 1930s. | ||
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Revision as of 01:02, 7 November 2020
On this page i am developing a gallery of images that feature a woman in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) plucking tea on vintage postcards and advertising. Stay tuned for more art, photos, postcards, advertisements, and socio-political theorizing about this trope in commercial tea leaf art.
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catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room
See Also
- Tea Leaf Symbols in Art
- Tea Leaf Reading in Art
- Advertisements for Tea Leaf Reading Services
- Harry Roseland's Fortune Teller Art
- Tea Company Booklet Art
- The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art