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Description:
Blown, colorless lead glass wine glass with a round funnel bowl with an engraved flower and bird. The Female Spectator, 1744, recorded that "tea whether of the Green or Bohea kind, when taken in excess occasions a dejection of spirits and flatulency, which lays the drinker of it under a kind of necessity of having recourse to more animating liquors. The most temperate and sober of the sex find themselves obliged to drink wine pretty freely after it. None of the, nowadays pretend to entertain with the one without the other, the bottle and the cordial-glass are as sure an apprendix to the tea-table as the slop-basin. Brandy, rum, and other spirituous liquors are become a usual accompaniment to tea."

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