Its pans and overhead cisterns
were made in pottery. They were supported by wood structures.
There were better cements for building. Chinese porcelain,
embroidery, and lacquer-work were popular. Landscaping to
reproduce an idealized country scene replaced formal gardens.
Furniture and landscaped gardens were often done in a Chinese
style. Foreign trees were imported.
Many of the well-to-do now lived in districts without as well as
within the city limits. Many streets east of the City were named
after the governing families whose estates were there. Their
mansions had interior columns, archways, marble halls and
fireplaces, carving, gilding, rich colors, and high ornamented
ceilings. They each had a picture gallery, a library, stables with
coachmen, grooms, and stableboys, and a still-room for concocting
liquors and cordials such as cherry brandy, sloe gin, and
elderberry wine. Medicine and scents were also developed in the
still-room. Washing was in done wash bowls held by wooden stands
wood and in a built-in bathtub. Hot water usually had to carried
up to it, but bathtubs with hot and cold running water were known.
In these mansions, there were many private parties and balls. The
standard for politeness here was high and gentlemen were expected
to keep their tempers. This came about because impoliteness could
easily lead to a quarrel and then a duel. The pistol was replacing
the sword as the weapon of choice for duels.
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