The Automaton that is also a Drinking Game | with Rachel King | Curator's Corner S7 Ep9

Possibly the most elaborate drinking game we've ever heard of, this automaton was made in Nuremburg between 1617 and 1620 by Wolf Christoff Ritter. This is an excellent example of the types of drinking games and drinking paraphernalia that could be found on the tables of german aristocracy and the well-to-do of the 16th century.

Join Rachel King, curator of the Waddesdon Bequest to find out how it was made, how it was used, and how to drink cherrie brandy from a stag shaped bottle.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_WB-134

0:00 Introduction
0:53 Object details and manufacture techniques
3:29 Introduction to drinking culture in Germany
5:30 Novelty drinking vesels
6:03 Provenence - where was this type of vesel normally found?
7:33 How do you drink from a novelty drinking vesel?
11:04 Outtro