Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… 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 to groups small and large. 2 . … Punch parties around a punch bowl enabled men of different ranks to join together in manly fraternity. It is clear from visual culture – not least Hogarth’s depiction – that at times these occasions could unite the elite and vulgar, the … 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 called ‘an …
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