Not seen in this detail of the painting is the entry of a male servant who is carrying a tall silver pot, which may have contained chocolate or coffee. These two other social beverages of the 18th century were served in cups of a deep cylindrical shape, like the three seen on the end of the table. The shallow, bowl-shaped, handleless teacups and the saucers are arranged in a neat row along one side of the table. The teapot rests on a square tile-like stand or dish that protects the table from the heat. Nearby is a bowl to receive tea dregs, a pot for cream or milk, and a sugar bowl. The teatime ritual has begun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PICTURES CONSULTED 1700 ca. _Portrait Group of Gentlemen and a Child._ Believed to be English or Dutch. Reproduced in Ralph Edwards, _Early Conversation Pictures from the Middle Ages to about 1730_, London, 1954, p. 117, no. 73. 1710 ca. _The Tea-Table._ English. Reproduced in _The Connoisseur Period Guides: The Stuart Period, 1603-1714_, edited by Ralph Edwards and L. G. G. Ramsey, New York, 1957, p. 30. 1720 ca. _A Family Taking Tea._ English. Reproduced in Edwards, _Early Conversation Pictures_, p. 132, no. 95. _Two Ladies and a Gentleman at Tea._ Attributed to Nicolaas Verkolje, Dutch. Reproduced in Edwards, _Early Conversation Pictures_, p. 96, no. 42. _An English Family at Tea_ (frontispiece). Joseph Van Aken(?). Reproduced in Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, _The Dictionary of English Furniture_, revised and enlarged by Ralph Edwards, London, 1954, vol. 1, p. 10, fig. 16. 1725 ca. _Tea Party in the Time of George I_ (fig. 5). English. Reproduced in _Antiques_, November 1955, vol. 68, p. vi following p. 460. 1730 ca. _The Assembly at Wanstead House._ By William Hogarth, English. Reproduced in Edwards, _Early Conversation Pictures_, p. 125, no. 87. _Family._ By William Hogarth, English. Reproduced in R. H. Wilenski, _English Painting_, London, 1933, pl. 11a. _Family Group_ (fig. 1). By Gawen Hamilton, English. Reproduced in _Antiques_, March 1953, vol. 63, p. 270. _A Family Party._ By William Hogarth, English. Reproduced in _English Conversation Pictures of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century_, edited by G. C. Williamson, London, 1931, pl. 10. 1730 _Susanna Truax_ (fig. 2). American. Reproduced in _Art in America_, May 1954, vol. 42, p. 101. _The Wollaston Family._ By William Hogarth, English. Reproduced in Edwards, _Early Conversation Pictures_, p. 126, no. 88. 1731