Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… of glasses were produced for the ritual of toasting. Special toastmaster glasses and custom-made glassware become part of clubs’ identity-sustaining paraphernalia. Glasses also served to express individuals’ tastes and social standing, … company and reinforced bonding and conviviality. Punchbowls featured in paintings and caricatures, such as William Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation representing a party of drunk gentlemen around a table decked with a decorated punchbowl, flagons and broad-footed glasses. Stem glasses …
Alcohol | Drinking | Ritual | Tableware | Toasting
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