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This fall's crop of exhibitions revels in a fascination with cultural exchange: in Saint Petersburg, it is European tea drinking; in Dresden, imperial China is compared to the Saxon-Polish court; in the vicinity of Paris, the foreign-born Mary, queen of Scots sheds light on French heritage; while Londoners turn their eyes to the now-vanished civilizations of Byzantium and ancient Babylon.
In 1610 the Dutch East India Company began importing tea from the Far East to Europe, gambling that it could create a thriving market for a beverage that was virtually unknown in the West. This risky venture proved sound after a fashion, for the desire for tea spread quickly in ...