Sorting and Packing Fine Tea

A timber tea house of six rooms, with beams overhead and a different wallpaper in each. Top left, a man in a suit examines leaves at a counter of glass jars and cups while an assistant takes notes beside framed leaf plates and a flavour chart. In the middle, three workers load tins into a crate next to a cart, with maps of Africa and the Indian Ocean behind them. At top right, two men in suits read papers and check a world map under portraits. Downstairs on the left, workers sift leaves on a tilted screen under a map of Ceylon and a grading chart. In the centre, a large wooden barrel turns as the blend is mixed, with a chart and a client board above. The last room presses and labels coloured tins at a bench. The turning barrel, the map of Ceylon and the coloured tins give each stage of the tea's journey a mark of its own.