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Two handles on a vessel can help the drinker steady the contents during use or more easily hand it off to a fellow imbiber. Caudle was a warm beverage of wine or ale, eggs, bread, milk, and spices that was popular in the 1600s and 1700s in England and its colonies. Flanking depictions of followers of the wine god Dionysus, the large painted eyes on the ancient Greek kylix turn the cup into a mask when brought to the drinker’s mouth.

 

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