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Introduction
Every home should have one
- Home entertainment
- Dressing
- Dinner
- Dessert
  - Centrepiece for holding fruit
  - Wineglass rinser
  - Porcelain tureen and (non-matching) stand
  - Stand with sweetmeat glasses
  - Wooden roundels
- Drinking beer
- Drinking wine and spirits
- Drinking tea and coffee
How did they do that?
Putting on the style

Centrepiece for holding fruit

A photograph of an elegant glass bowl.

Cut glass, Ireland, 1780-1800.

By the time dessert was served, it was likely to be dark. Candles were the main form of lighting. Cut glass was popular for dessert wares because it glittered in the candlelight.

Bequeathed by Walter Harding, 1936.