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Silver in Georgian Dublin - Making, Selling, Consuming (Paperback)
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Silver in Georgian Dublin - Making, Selling, Consuming (Paperback)
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
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Georgian Dublin is synonymous with a period of unprecedented
expansion in the market for luxury goods. At a time when new
commodities, novel technologies and fashionable imports seduced
elite society, silver enjoyed an established association with
gentility and prestige. Earlier studies have focused predominantly
on the issue of style. This book considers the demand for silver
goods in Georgian Ireland from the perspectives of makers,
retailers and consumers. It discusses the practical and symbolic
uses of silverware, interpreted through contemporary guild
accounts, inventories, trade ephemera and culinary manuscripts. For
the first time the activities of Dublin's goldsmiths and their
customers are considered in the context of the British Isles,
acknowledging Dublin's 'second city' status in relation to London.
How did the availability of new products like English porcelain and
Sheffield Plate affect the demand for silver in Dublin, and how did
silver imports from London affect the Dublin trade? To what extent
do the practices of Dublin goldsmiths mirror their North American
counterparts seeking to infer associations with the fashionable
metropolis of London? Drawing on an extensive range of documentary
and object evidence this wide-ranging analysis considers the
context in which silver goods were made, used, valued and displayed
in Georgian Ireland.
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