[MR] setting a table

[Alex Long]

Don't you just love how everybody's freaking out, but the lute player is still strumming & crooning to his lady love? lol
<http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bruegel/pieter_e/05/02death.jpg>

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, C. Brian Towey <cbt at ib-ent.com> wrote:

> From: C. Brian Towey <cbt at ib-ent.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] setting a table
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 2:02 PM
> > Would "shrub glasses" (commonly available and
> relatively affordable at 
> > Colonial Williamsburg) be appropriate, or are they too
> late?
>  
> The "shrub glasses" look a lot like the upended
> glass in "The Triumph of
> Death" by, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1562).
> http://www.wga.hu/preview/b/bruegel/pieter_e/05/02death.jpg
>  
> 
> The same shop also sells "julep cups" that would
> be great from the high
> middle ages on down.
> http://www.virginiabornandbred.com/prodinfo.asp?number=5535C
>  
> 
> These are expensive, though.  I often see that style of cup
> for sale in
> bathroom sets, but they are usually labeled as "not
> safe for drinking."  I
> guess they're toothbrush holders or something.  If
> anybody knows a good
> source for inexpensive, food-grade beakers (julep cups),
> please chime in.
> 
> Charles Fleming
>