Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… tea , coffee and chocolate were consumed in porcelain and fine earthenware, punch was served in a bowl which blended the associations of rowdy, refined, associational and polite drinking cultures. 2 That bowls were produced in many different sizes also made them accessible … drinkers around the bowl. In this way, punch bowls were associated with a particular mode of convivial sociability. This association of punch bowl was underscored in William Hogarth’s image, A Midnight Modern Conversation . The painting of …
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