400 YEARS OF WATER CONSUMPTION: EARLY MODERN POTTERY CUPS IN PORTUGAL

Tânia Manuel Casimiro; Sarah Newstead

doi:10.51679/ophiussa.2019.53

400 YEARS OF WATER CONSUMPTION: EARLY MODERN POTTERY CUPS IN PORTUGAL

Authors

Tânia Manuel Casimiro IHC/IAP - Instituto de História Contemporânea / Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências
Sarah Newstead Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51679/ophiussa.2019.53

Keywords:

pottery cups, water consumption, smell, taste

Abstract

This paper aims to provide an analysis of the production and consumption of drinking cups in Portugal examining their productive and decorative characteristics and establishing their relation with the ingestion of water between the 15th and 18th centuries. Although drinking cups started to be used much earlier, during the early modern age an international demand for such objects emerges. This fame will take them to places from Northern Europe to the New World where their colour, taste and smell were highly appreciated.

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Published

2021-10-15

How to Cite

Casimiro, Tânia Manuel, and Sarah Newstead. 2021. “400 YEARS OF WATER CONSUMPTION: EARLY MODERN POTTERY CUPS IN PORTUGAL”. Ophiussa. Revista Do Centro De Arqueologia Da Universidade De Lisboa 3 (October):145-54. https://doi.org/10.51679/ophiussa.2019.53.