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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Shop Shop manager Beverly Shmeis keeps Gardner's taste in mind when she buys for the shop, so you can count on gift items here to be elegant. ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM Location: 2 Palace Road, Boston Phone: 617-278-5168 Hours: Tues-Sun, 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Get directions High end: A Chinese porcelain hand-painted footbath in a deep charcoal gray. $400. Low end: For a woman with long hair, Chinese wooden hairsticks, decorated with glass beads. $9.45. The gift of serenity: The Japanese see tea as sacred; the English do too, if not quite with the same mysticism. The Gardner Museum Shop has a range of tea-inspired gifts, including squat, elegant cast-iron Japanese teapots ($42-$70) and a handsomely bound "The Book of Tea" ($16.95) by Okakura Kakuzo. Kakuzo, a friend of Mrs. Gardner and the first curator of Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts, played a pivotal part of Japan's cultural renaissance in the late 19th century. High style: All right, so your mother's house will never measure up to the elan of Gardner's. That doesn't mean you can't help her along. The shop carries beautiful porcelain vases ($70-$140) and tureens ($92) made in California that sport designs with cupids and floral patterns. "For the Back Bay look," Shmeis suggests.

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