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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