Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… for alcoholic beverages, and finer, more modern and expensive chinaware and porcelain reserved for exotic beverages (tea, coffee and chocolate). There was only one punchbowl for the entire company. 1 Those who happened to drink directly out of it signaled their social or moral inferiority and instead punch was usually ladled out into individual tumbler glasses. 2 That object, disposed in a central position and … p. 165-203. 2 . On the anxieties associated with drinking out of a common bowl, see Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a Teacup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century’, Journal of Design History 21 (2008), p. 205-221. Lead …
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