Abraham Snaphaen, Tea Party of Henriette Catherine of Orange-Nassau, 1686

Teegesellschaft der Henriette Catharina von Oranien

In the 17th century, tea and coffee were a luxury that only the aristocracy could afford, and they thus became status symbols. This painting shows Princess Henriette Catherine of Anhalt-Dessau, née Princess of Orange-Nassau (1637–1708), having a tea party with four of her daughters.

Abraham Snaphaen (1651–1691), Tea Party of Henriette Catherine of Orange-Nassau, 1686, oil on wood, 46,7 x 35,5 cm; source: Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz, Bildarchiv, photograher: Heinz Fräßdorf, Originalausstattung Gotisches Haus Wörlitz, Inventarnummer: M 01/2002, http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=2980, Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Deed), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.