Tea is a passion renewed every year with the spring harvest. Tea is as omnipresent today as it was yesterday, in the Imperial Court, in monasteries, in the scholar’s libraries or in popular markets, … Tea is China’s gift to the rest of the world. Tea is brought to life through a set of precise, delicate gestures in order to quench thirst, delight friends, and immortalize the expert. Tea and its ustensils evolving over time according to the methods of preparation and tasting, its objects selected and collected with love. Tea is the history of an art of living evoked by the remarkable ceramics collections of the Flagstaff House, Museum of Tea Ware in Hong Kong, and highlighted in the fully refurbished Far Eastern collections of the Musée royal de Mariemont.