Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… drink beer. 1 1 . Karen Harvey, ‘Ritual encounters: punch parties and masculinity in the eighteenth century’, Past and Present, (no. 214, 2012), pp. 174-180. The punch bowl itself was an object that straddled distinctions in the market of … The circularity of both the punch bowl itself helped produce the circular formation of punch bowl sociability, as represented in visual culture. This distinctive form of sociability can be understood as an example of what Erving Goffman … demonstrates that punch bowls were used alongside other ceramic objects in domestic spaces, though often without women present. 7 The integration of punch drinking into the domestic interior is evidenced from the middle of the eighteenth …
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