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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It the significance of best and engaging reacted to the people who once moned them. With over son works discussed the hock takes us on a darling visual adventure through the decorative arte from Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass bronte and maledics on the elaborate tablewares and personal adornments available to shoppers in the Age of Enlightenment. En route the authors consider the impact of global trade on European halite and expectations the glamour of the exotic as witnessed in the last for objects imported from the East the dipity of New World products like chocolate and sugat and the obsession with Chinoiserie decoration They ask what decorative objects meant to their owners before the age of industrial mass production and explore how technological innovation and the proliferation of goods from the sixteenth century onwards transformed the attitude of Europeans to their personal possessions. The book deliberately juxtaposes luxury artefacts such as an erotic Venetian bronze statuette an Iznic jug with Elizabethan silver-gilt mounts or a prized piece of Meissen porcelain with unusual quirky objects-a Delftware bird-cage a child’s mourning ring or a pair of yellow embroidered shoes and more everyday items that are usually passed over such as a pewter dish or an earthen ware tankard. Drawing on the latest scholarly research the authors investigate how such objects were made used and personalised as well as adapted mended and recycled; how people went about acquiring the items they treasured. and what meaning and value accrued to their favourite things. (MP)