For All the Tea in China Replica A clever compact calendar

A clever compact calendar

A planisphere printed in white on a dark blue background

Surrounding this are depictions of twelve comets

locked in an eclipse in which the Moon is silhouetted against the Sun's bright disc

the painting significantly identifies the danger to English ships from such pirates during the 1660s and 70s and was initially thought to show the 'Kingfisher' in action in 1681

For All the Tea in China Replica A clever compact calendarRobert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China territory forbidden to foreigners to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. For centuries, China had been the world's sole tea manufacturer. Britain purchased this fuel for its Empire by trading opium to the Chinese a poisonous relationship Britain fought two destructive