Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… Whereas ale, wine and spirits were served in glass, stoneware and rougher delftwares, and the refined hot drinks tea , coffee and chocolate were consumed in porcelain and fine earthenware, punch was served in a bowl which blended the … produced in many different sizes also made them accessible to groups small and large. 2 . Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a tea-cup? Punch, domesticity and gender in the eighteenth century’, Journal of Design History, (vol. 21, no. 3, 2008), p. … A lone drinker partaking of punch directly from the vessel would be uncouth and impolite (Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a tea-cup?’, 212). The decoration of the many thousands of extant bowls shows a clear link between bowls and celebration. …
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