Treasures of the Goldsmith's Art: The Michael Wellby Bequest to the Ashmolean Museum

by Timothy Wilson and Matthew Winterbottom

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191080701X
• ISBN13: 9781910807019
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 10.4"