A commerce with things : the value of precious metalwork in early modern England
- Author
- Clifford, Helen
- Document type
- Article (livre)
- Language
English
- Book title
- Consumers and luxury : consumer culture in Europe 1650-1850
- Author (monograph)
- Berg, Maxine (Editor, Collective Author); Clifford, Helen (Editor, Collective Author); De Marchi, Neil (Contributor, Collective Author); Jones, Colin (Contributor, Collective Author); Spang, Rebecca (Contributor, Collective Author)
- Source
- Consumers and luxury : consumer culture in Europe 1650-1850. 1999, 147-168, 5 ill.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press distributed in the USA by S. Martin's Press, Manchester (usa)
- Publication country
- United States
- Abstract (en)
- Examines aspects of the commerce between people and objects in terms of ideas of value, focusing upon the shifting relationship between priorities of monetary worth, respect for workmanship and personal association. Discussion is centred upon objects made of precious metal, prime indicators of power and status, both in terms of sterling worth, and, in their form and workmanship, of taste. Charts a mid-17th c. shift in values and priorities from the standard of the metal to that of workmanship. This laid the ground for the reception of the labour intensive products of the French Rococo style, and the indication of value through an increasingly complex language of taste. Mid-18th c. technologies introduced new materials, notably Sheffield plate, and wider markets.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier20010101-00147226
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