Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… Image William Hogarth, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.351, c.1732. Résumé Punch bowls were made from a range of materials and contained a drink that was accessible to a range of social ranks. … were associated with a particular mode of convivial sociability. A richly symbolic object, the physical qualities of the punchbowl played a material role in generating encounters marked by good fellowship. Punch parties, for example, enabled men of different ranks to join together in manly fraternity. Punch was consumed at …
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