Ashmolean Museum Oxford
by Timothy Wilson and Matthew Winterbottom
The Wellby Bequest 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 were previously published. This beautiful and accessible book will put introduce to the public domain around fifty of the prime pieces from this astonishing addition to the Museum, 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.
Paperback
Book contains: 160 pages.
Dimensions: 20.02 x 1.4 x 26.37cm
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