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Treasures of the Goldmith's Art - The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum (Paperback)
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Treasures of the Goldmith's Art - The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum (Paperback)
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The Wellby Bequest, received by the Ashmolean Museum in 2013,
consists of some 500 precious and exotic objects, mainly from
Continental Europe, from the late medieval to the rococo, and is
the most remarkable accession of this kind of material to any
museum in the UK since the bequest of Ferdinand de Rothschild to
the British Museum in 1898 (the Waddesdon Bequest). The collection
was assembled by three generations of the Wellby family with an
intention that it should reflect the great princely treasure
chambers (Kunstkammer) preserved in Dresden, Vienna, Innsbruck, and
elsewhere. Many of these objects have never been previously
published. This beautiful and accessible book introduces over sixty
of the prime pieces from this astonishing addition to the
Ashmolean, presenting material of the type incomparably superior to
anything in other UK museums outside London. Both authors are
specialists in European decorative arts of the Renaissance and
later periods.
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