Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… 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. … of punchbowls, see Karen Harvey, ‘Ritual Encounters: Punch Parties and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century’, Past and Present 214 (2012), p. 165-203. 2 . On the anxieties associated with drinking out of a common bowl, see Karen Harvey, … mottos and political symbolism. If the decoration and engraving made turned glasses into durable, symbolic objects representing a club’s, party’s or family’s identity, the importance of glassware also lay in the symbolic uses to which it …
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