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From the mid-eighteenth century this changed, as entrepreneurs created large factories where all the skills could be contained under  one roof. Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) claimed that his Soho factory in Birmingham had: `seven or eight hundred persons employ'd in almost all  those Arts that are applicable to the manufacturing of all the metals... I have almost every machine that is applicable to those Arts. I have two  Water mills employed in rolling, polishing, grinding and turning various sorts of laths.' (letter to James Adam 1 Oct. 1770)","physicalDescription":"One of a pair of sauce boats and covers, each in the form of an oval two-handled vase with fluted and gadrooned body, the lip chased with floral scrolls,  loop handles forked at the junction with the lip, spreading foot with border chased with a flower and ribbon with low domed matching cover  surmounted by a knob finial. The full sets of hallmarks are on the lip inside the lid. 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