Auction houses [ Trade ]
… internationally, and becoming a hub of connoisseurial debate. Places > Trade Keywords Art Audience Collecting Commerce Coffeehouses Exhibitions Auction sales were imported from seventeenth-century Holland, but rapidly became a feature of … of the port’s Prize-Office and the Common Crier’s office and started taking place in key centres of sociability – the coffeehouses. 4 In England and Ireland, this was a transgression of sorts, as public sales of goods were often … expanded, these hard-to-price objects became a non-negligible part of after decease transfer of capital. Auctions at coffeehouses such as Tom’s in London, or Dick's in Dublin offered a unique mode of urban sociability and exchange for …
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