Goods and Services

What’s on your shopping list this week? Food? Wine? Clothes? Something for the house? Take a look at what would have been on a shopping list three hundred years ago – it might surprise you!

Shopping for Luxury

A fashionable Georgian house included all the china and silver and gold plate necessary to entertain in a manner befitting the status of its owner. By the 1740s-1750s English china was becoming highly successful. Manufacturers began opening their own china showrooms to showcase their wares.

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