Auction houses [ Trade ]
… Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991), p. 32. The auction house provided these communities with sociable space, by also maintaining and redistributing their cultural identities from sale to sale. The British antiquary and … medicine and literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), p. 212-246. Auction houses as spaces merging commercial ethos and a burgeoning discourse of art and connoisseurship were instrumental in the creation … that Roy Porter identifies not just in epistemological breakthrough but in the very concrete building of sociable space that enabled for example ‘the marketing of new merchandise and cultural services’. 13 Their sociability remained …
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