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Treasures of the Goldmith's Art
Matthew Winterbottom
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Description for Treasures of the Goldmith's Art
Paperback. The first publication on the Michael Wellby bequest to the Ashmolean, introducing over sixty of the most important items in the collection, and timed to coincide with the opening of the new Wellby Bequest Gallery in the Museum in September 2015. Num Pages: 160 pages, 80 colour. BIC Classification: 3J; ACN; AFKG; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 265 x 14. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ashmolean Museum United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910807019
SKU
V9781910807019
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About Matthew Winterbottom
Timothy Wilson is Barrie and Deedee Wigmore Research Keeper in the Ashmolean Museums's Department of Western Art and Professor of the Arts of the Renaissance in the University of Oxford. He was Keeper of the Department of Western Art from 1990 to 2013. Matthew Winterbottom is Curator of Nineteenth-Century Decorative Arts at the Ashmolean Museum.
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