The practical book of early American arts and crafts . n also in Oriental porcelain choco-late pots. Punch Ladles had bowls flaring sidewise or bowlswith lips or spouts at the sides to facilitate pouring;the handles were long and oftentimes were made ofwood capped at the end with silver. Strainers were fashioned with great elegance andcare, for punch brewing was an highly important socialfunction requiring the best of accessory and handles were chastely moulded and thehandles were scrolled (Fig. 7, B). Some strainers hadtwo long handles, projecting on each side, which SILVER;
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . n also in Oriental porcelain choco-late pots. Punch Ladles had bowls flaring sidewise or bowlswith lips or spouts at the sides to facilitate pouring;the handles were long and oftentimes were made ofwood capped at the end with silver. Strainers were fashioned with great elegance andcare, for punch brewing was an highly important socialfunction requiring the best of accessory and handles were chastely moulded and thehandles were scrolled (Fig. 7, B). Some strainers hadtwo long handles, projecting on each side, which SILVER; DOMESTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL 157 stretched across the diameter of the punch bowl, restingupon the opposite rims; others had but one handle, inwhich case there was apt to be a catch projecting down-ward (Fig. 7, A) to hold the strainer in place at theside of the bowl. The perforations (Fig. 7, B) were indecorative, and usually geometrical, patterns. Syphons and Funnels were made in silver (v. plateillustration) for the convenience of householders in a. Fig. 7. Side view of Strainer by Benjamin Halstead, Philadelphia, 1783, showingcatch; B, Top view of same Strainer. C. Hartman Kuhn Collection. Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. day when heads of families had regard enough for theirport and Madeira to be punctilious about handling itthemselves and before the appreciation of those pota-bles had been lessened by cocktails, highballs and theirplebeian congeners. Bowls, such as those shown in Key II, 11; Key V,13 and 14, and in the plate illustrations, besides beingused for sugar or for tea slops, fulfilled a variety ofother uses. Their contour affinities have already beennoted. 158 EARLY AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS Tba-Caddies or Canistees, towards the latter partof the eighteenth century, were made to accompany thesilver tea services. Their shape was derived from theporcelain tea-caddies of the period while the details ofform and decoration corresponded with the other a
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