DRINKING
-Leather goatskin WATER Bag, essential for caravaneers so that their storage VESSELS NOT BREAK WHEN TIED TO THE SADDLE, Better TO SLOSH AGAINST THE RIBS OF A SKINNY CAMEL than to CRACK and SHATTER IN MID-SAHARA.
-LUCK OF EDENHALL Enameled GLASS, THE EARLIEST KNOWN ISLAMIC ART PIECE TO ARRIVE IN WESTERN EUROPE, probably in the saddle bag of a returning Crusader, many of its kind were used as chalices in the Catholic mass, this one became a toy in an English baronial family’s drinking game
-ZIR, HANDLE-LESS CLAY WATER POT, its rounded bottom PLACED IN a STAND, FOR PUBLIC DRINKING ON CITY STREETS, IN EGYPT.. AND EVERYWHERE,
-JEBENA COFFEE POT MADE FROM HAMMERED/SOLDERED STRIPS OF OLD TIN CAN in SUDAN, A STORY OF RECYCLING, WASTE NOT/WANT NOT
-AZERI TEA SAMOVAR, ADAPTED FROM RUSSIA, WITH AZERBAIJAN-SPECIFIC DECORATION
-TULIP SHAPE TEA GLASS, UBIQUITOUS for drinking TURKISH CAY, hot to hold without a handle
