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Description: | Brick of compressed, powdered tea, which is circular with relief decoration on the obverse depicting on the upper half a trade scene with three male figures in a street: A customer is purchasing while the hawker is weighing goods by a steelyard, and another figure is walking away with goods carried in both hands. The lower half is a patterned floor decorated with lozenges and swastika motifs. The whole scene is enclosed within a key-fret band. The reverse is plain. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | teabricks (food sample) tea leaf teabricks (currency & wealth) Tea Food Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-215009 | Go to resource |
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