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Bowls (Tableware)

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  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • A pretty barmaid mixing a drink in a glass. Coloured lithograph, c. 1825.
  • Makers of brass basins and bowls at work in their workshop. Woodcut by J. Amman.
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    A man, glass in hand, sits at a table with food and drink. Wood-engraving, late 16th century.

    | Reference: 26529i
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    An African chief smoking a very elaborately carved tobacco-pipe. Process print.

    | Reference: 25671i
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    A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

    Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965. | Date: 1916 | Reference: 24128i
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    A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: 1 April 1798 | Reference: 26454i
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    The boiling and testing of opium by Chinese men watched by a European man. Wood-engraving by F. Dadd, c. 1880.

    | Date: [c. 1880] | Reference: 25046i
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