A delicate rock crystal rhyton on display here shows the sophistication of both workmanship and personal taste in the New-Palace period.
Delicate, hand-made crystal ceremony drinking vessels are on display.
Famous Edinburgh residents of this period later known as the Scottish Enlightenment included David Hume, author of A Treatise of Human Nature and one of Britain's greatest philosophers; Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, a pioneer in the study of political economy; and Joseph Black, the scientist who discovered the concept of latent heat.