Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… trade. Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Art Commodities Community Consumption Furniture Luxury Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Women The rise of consumer goods and consumerism made luxury a much-debated topic throughout the eighteenth … by an elite but also by members of the middle class, even working people, in sociable contexts, for instance at the tea-table (china) and dances (dress), likewise in public leisure spaces. 3 Eighteenth-century Britain saw an ongoing … part (Berg 39). Documenting taste and social status, many luxury items, such as the china on an eighteenth-century tea-table, were represented for visiting friends and neighbours. One luxurious innovation of the later eighteenth …
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