The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-02
MUGS, PITCHERS, pUNCHDOVLS
SPOIL FOR COLLECTORS IN TIE
CITY'S FOREIGN SALOONS.
Especially Prizes in n Way or EareneA
Mugs In Grimy ItaliQn Cellars German
May Wine Bowls and the Pitchers TIA;
visit the Weinstuben-Prtce Ranges.

EAnGDIAnN EIlECu III NIO Way VI bAIUE
Nuns In Grimy italian Cellars -Germsn
MAJ Wins Bowls and M PttoherS TIA;
Visit the weinstuben-Prtce Ranges.
Some men pick up mugs and %punchbows
ND anywhere they can, new or old. and of
~ailtshapes and sizes. Others have a fancy
for cups with associations.
IL is a fad OF one man with a country
house near Philadelphia TO ask any friend
who visits him to give him a properly in
scribed' drinking mug. He keeps these
gifts ranged around a big room. and When
ever the, guest comes again he drink from
his ownmug.
. You mly buy n good German mug for
anythingtfrom a few cen ts TO 20 or 50. Only
the most fastidious man would ask for
anything better than a well designed ltrs
mug with a proper pewter lid, and such
a mug neednot cost more h two or threa
dollars. II you have a fancy for a silver
lid the cost will be increased by perhApa
a dollar or two. The better tradition Ia
fop the pewter. 80
1t IL a lucky collector who gets hold OF
the simpler sort Of Italian earthen mugA,
Fashionable shops are full Of gorgeous and
costly Italian drinking cups Of gilded glasa
or richly decorated porcelain, but the
cheap and popular Italian earthenware,
most OF 1t probably Neapolitan in origin.
is rarely seen outside the Italian drinking
places, desperate looking but altogether
harmless little saloons in Mulberry. Mott
and neighboring streets
These are often really loving cups with
two handles and three lips. They show
old Greek influence in their form. As 10
their decoration, it is a matter Of crude
gay coloring in bands Of red and green OF
blue.
These cups Of two sizes, pass from hand
to hand and mouth to mouth in the gdmy
little cellar restaurants, where they are
foamed to the brim with the peasant blue
wine drawn directly from the wood. 1t ID
hard to buy them in these places, though
occasionally the tapster will part with a
damaged one to a customer who perBistently
freduents the cellar.
italian bubble TASKS Of cheap but delicate
green glass are much easier to buy, and 50
are the Italian TASKS Of wood made to simu-
late little casks. Tall two handled TASKS
Of brown glaze, coarse but graceful, are
occasionally imported by the Italians. and no
fancier OF e~arthenware should be without
one OF these. They look as II they had been
dug out of a buried city OF Magma Grecia.
When it to collecting ~punchbowls
one must be willing to pay pretty we'll for
ones fad. In May and June q few German
wine dealers sell that delicious May winei
or the almost equally delicious pineapple
punch, and tradition requires that the drink
be honored with q handsome bowl.
Nothing is Landowner than the best OF the
German earthen punchbowls. Those In
which the May wine 10 kept are usually big.
hdded affairs holding three or four gallons
with embiematio figures. Half buried in
cracked Toe these May wine bowls are de-
Ilioiously inviting.
They cost from sl2 to $40. according 60
size and quality. Considerably cheaper.
punch bowls Of aoTid deccrasionsn md smooth
glazed surface. You may have an imported
bowl Of this kind ~abundantY large for u
or $40.
Perhaps the handsomest Of al punch
make. They are Of richly decorated and
semi-opaque slass. and often enortmcus IN
size. Their cost puts them beyond the
reach Of ordinary mortals. These bowls
ave q noble. bel-hke ring when gently
help an uneasy fear that the beautiful and
delioate things might shive into impalpable
dust IL the right note were sounded on a
violin.
acknowledgements the Weln bJupen
will contract q strong affection FOR the
earthen wine pitchers that come In from
the neighboring homes to be filed with beer
or wine about the noon hour. Some are
complete ely enclosed in wood Others are
coarse but graceful affairs Of blue gray
earthenware with fascinating shallow lips
and bits Of simple decoration that seem
almost accidental.
Every vein stube has several Of these in
whichto draw winefrom the VOC and servo
it at the little tables where the pinoohle
players sit half the afternoon over their in
terminable game. Now and then Just a
simple lidless little pitcher Of dark brown
comes in and temptstne unlocking 0oiieotor
to waylay the outgoing Gretchen and com
init highway robbery. Nothing lie filter for
the dir ner table Of a simple country home
or a OF mp.
Some Vi the wealthier Germans send 60
the vein stube stately, tall earthen pitchers
with rich decorative designs and comfort
able notices in praise of wine or beer.
These sell at prices ranging from IS to sl2.
They hold from two to -four htres, and are
warrante ed to prevent drought for a whole
summer afternoon.
Afew e~xtravagant families send one OF the
largest size to be hlled at thise season with
the May wine, but that seems to the old
fellows who are drinking the delectable
punch at 20 cents q glass nothing less than
down right ~wickedness.
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