Vintage 1940s Tom & Jerry Ivory with Gold Lettering Punch Bowl Set Trivets prawn and scallop

prawn and scallop

A sharply faceted knop beneath each bowl flows into a slender clear stem and an elegant hexagonal foot

This pair of French faience mini plates has black tulips in various stages of bloom over creamy white plates

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Vintage 1940s Tom & Jerry Ivory with Gold Lettering Punch Bowl Set Trivets prawn and scallopVintage 1940s Tom & Jerry Ivory Punch Bowl Set recalls a holiday drinking tradition with roots in Regency era London. The warming cocktail is generally credited to British writer and sporting journalist Pierce Egan, who popularized the drink in the 1820s alongside his enormously successful book and stage adaptation, Tom and Jerry, or Life in London. Americans enthusiastically adopted the concoction, and by the twentieth century, serving Tom & Jerrys