Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… parties, for example, enabled men of different ranks to join together in manly fraternity. Punch was consumed at other kinds of gatherings, both in domestic and non-domestic spaces. The punch bowl brought together disparate individuals for a ritual encounter and structured sociability. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés alcool Celebration Conviviality Drinking Masculinity Ritual Tableware Punch was a drink made from a blend of alcohol spirit, fruit, sugar, spices and water. … (no. 214, 2012), pp. 174-180. The punch bowl itself was an object that straddled distinctions in the market of drinking objects. In the early eighteenth century the bowls were made from silver, pewter, glass and a range of ceramics, but …
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