Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… a central position and meant for sharing the intoxicating drink, was the focus of the company and reinforced bonding and conviviality. Punchbowls featured in paintings and caricatures, such as William Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation … In late Stuart London, some taverns offered to their customers ‘jolly boys’, cups with twisted handles that ‘expressed conviviality and linked arms’ and were very difficult to drink out of without spilling; similar practices of convivial … purpose’ like smuggling; more open commercial and military networks. 9 The last of these was transnational in nature. Conviviality was central to Jacobite meetings. Drinking the right toast in the right way was crucial to manifesting the …
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