Dahn, J (2009) 'Ceramics in the West Midlands in the late 18th century: production and consumption through the eyes of Katherine Plymley.' Interpreting Ceramics, 11.
Abstract
In this article I investigate how a particular group of consumers in the West Midlands area – the Plymley family and their circle – related to ceramics and ceramics production during the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century. My principle sources are the unpublished writings of Katherine Plymley and her brother Joseph Plymley’s A General View of the Agriculture of Shropshire with Observations (McMillan, London 1803). I review and discuss the evidence supplied by these sources and argue that both Abolitionism and Quakerism influenced the Plymleys in their consumption of ceramics, especially Coalport China.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Plymley, Coalbrookdale, Coalport, Wedgwood, Abolition, Quakerism, design history, consumption, gender, emulation, tea table, objectscape |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2012 12:38 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2022 09:40 |
| ISSN: | 1471-146X |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/375 |
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