A talk from Helen Saberi, on Tuesday 23 April 2013 at the Horniman Museum.
Given as part of the Collections People Stories project.
www.horniman.ac.uk/about/collections-people-stories
4. A map of the Silk Road showing mountain areas and desert
5. A camel caravan on the move, packed with cases of tea,
in a 1909 photograph
6. A tea brick from the Horniman Study Collections Centre
7. A glazed stoneware teapot from the Song Dynasty (AD 960 – 1279)
(From the Horniman Museum Study Collection)
8. A tea bowl from the same period, again from the Horniman
Collection. It is small and made of brown stoneware.
9. An Yixing teapot based on one of the Ming designs
(From the Horniman Collection)
10. Also from the Ming period, a delicate porcelain handless cup which
tea was sipped from
(From the Horniman Collection)
11. A tea brick similar to one shown earlier except that is has a Chinese coin
pressed into one corner and has been coated with resin for preservation.
12. Another tea brick which has four joined sections with circular and
rectangular designs impressed on it.
(From the Horniman Collecion)
13. Tea brick impressed with the Chinese character ‘tian’, meaning
heaven
(From the Horniman Collection)
14. A circular tea brick with a relief decoration.
(From the Horniman Collection)