Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… to join together in manly fraternity. Punch was consumed at other kinds of gatherings, both in domestic and non-domestic spaces. The punch bowl brought together disparate individuals for a ritual encounter and structured sociability. Objects … Company, 1969), pp. 94-130. Punch was consumed at other kinds of gatherings, both in domestic and non-domestic spaces. The extant bowls which suggest public places of sociability – taverns , clubs and associations – were surely … the home. Certainly, other evidence 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 …
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