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The general purpose of the project was to identify a shift from the mid-eighteenth century in the connections between art and manufacture in England, and to plot the emergence of a distinctive style and range of new English consumer goods. Specifically, the project was intended to produce a case study of the commercial applications of art techniques in fine English earthenware, porcelain and glass, with a subsidiary interest in ornamental metalware and works on paper; and to trace the connections between manufacturers and designers, finishers, decorators and artists.

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The data contain information regarding manufacturers, consumers, artists, designers, decorators and finishers in the ceramics and glass industries in a number of English towns and counties (particularly Bristol and Liverpool). Details were collected of the associations and connections of these individuals and their techniques, along with information about the places in which they worked, the products they produced, and the sources from which this information derived.

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