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Introduction
Every home should have one
- Home entertainment
- Dressing
- Dinner
- Dessert
- Drinking beer
- Drinking wine and spirits
  - Tin-glazed earthenware punchbowl
  - Glass wine bottle
  - Glass spirit flask
  - Rummer
  - Spirit flask
  - Stirrup cup, earthenware
- Drinking tea and coffee
How did they do that?
Putting on the style

Tin-glazed earthenware punchbowl

A photograph of a bowl with a ship on it.

Liverpool, dated 1770

The Brocklebanks rose to become one of Liverpool's great shipowning dynasties. This bowl was made so they could drink to the success of their ship the 'Gainsborough'.

Purchased 1955.