The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art
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- | On this page i am developing a gallery of images that feature a woman in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) plucking tea. Stay tuned for more art, photos, and socio-political theorizing about this trope in commercial tea leaf art. | + | 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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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. | ||
+ | File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon,One-Woman.jpg|Tea Plucker, Ceylon (Sri Lanka): One woman, postcard front, 1920s. | ||
+ | File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon-Two-Women.jpg|Tea Plucker, Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Two women, postcard front, 1920s. | ||
+ | File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon-Three-Women.jpg|Tea Pluckers Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Three women, postcard front, 1920s. | ||
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+ | File:The-Tea-Bush-andTea-Plusckers-at-Work.jpg|The Tea Bush and Tea Pluckers at Work, postcard front, 1920s. | ||
+ | File:Ceylon-Tea-Pluckers.jpg|Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Tea Pluckers, chrome era, postcards front. | ||
+ | File:Seventeen-Women-Plucking-Tea-with-a-Male-Overseer-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-postcard-front.jpg|Tea Pluckers at Work; seventeen women plucking tea with a male overseer in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), circa 1910. postcard front. | ||
+ | File:Multiple-Women-Plucking-Tea-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-c1930s.jpg|Plucking Tea Up-Country Estate Ceylon: Multiple women plucking tea in Ceylon (Sri-Lanka} with male overseers, circa 1930s, postcard front | ||
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* [[The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art]] | * [[The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art]] | ||
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[[Category:Tea Leaf Art]] | [[Category:Tea Leaf Art]] |
Latest revision as of 00:38, 7 September 2022
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.
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