Eighteenth-century ceramics: products for a civilised society

Abstract

The European context the European courts material progress in the production of porcelain. The economics of production and distribution in Britain: the economics of production taste and commerce politics and comerce business structures and money systems the organization of labour methods of distribution the market as spectacle contested property. The middle-class consumer - attitudes and values: material values social and cultural refinements middle-class ownership of fine ceramics taste and sensibility. Fine ceramics in social use: comforting refinement convivial spaces intimate spaces kitchen and table toxic vessels. The transmission of visual styles: images of the East taxonomies - ceramic production and natural histories emblems and personifications a taste for the antique.

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