A Rothschild Renaissance : a new look at the Waddesdon bequest in the British Museum / edited by Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shirley, Pippa, editor.

Thornton, Dora, editor.

British Museum, issuing body.

Series:

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 212.

Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 212

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rothschild, Ferdinand, Baron, 1839-1898--Art collections--Congresses.

Rothschild, Ferdinand.

Rothschild, Ferdinand, Baron, 1839-1898.

Waddesdon Manor (Waddesdon, England)--Congresses.

Waddesdon Manor (Waddesdon, England).

Art objects, Renaissance--Congresses.

Art objects, Renaissance.

Art objects--Private collections--England--Buckinghamshire--Congresses.

Art objects.

Art objects--Private collections.

Art--Private collections.

Art museums.

England--Buckinghamshire.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Museum, [2017]

Summary:

The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of nearly 300 precious art objects from Renaissance Europe. It was bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, M.P., when he died in 1898. The Bequest is named after Waddesdon Manor, the mansion he built in Buckinghamshire, England, where the collection was housed during his lifetime. The collection was accumulated by Baron Ferdinand and by his father, Baron Anselm, and was intended to rival those put together by rulers and princes from the Renaissance onwards. It is mainly made up of small-scale, rare and precious pieces of the highest quality which were intended to inspire a sense of curiosity and wonder.

Contents:

Foreword / Lord Rothschild

Acknowledgements ; Introduction / Dora Thornton and Pippa Shirley

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild at Waddesdon / Pippa Shirley

Contexts for collecting : inheritance, purchase, sale, tax and bequest / Peter Mandler

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild's "Renaissance museum" : treasures from the new smoking room at Waddesdon Manor / Rachel Boak

Securing a new national treasure : Baron Ferdinand Rothschild and the British Museum / Eloise Donnelly

Additions and omissions : the transfer of bequest objects from Waddesdon Manor to the British Museum / Gina Murphy

The post-bequest new smoking room collection at Waddesdon Manor / Phillippa Plock

A question of taste? : Limoges painted enamels collected by French and English Rothschilds in the 19th century / Françoise Barbe

A fascination for curiosities : a comparison between the nautilus and Bacchus cups in the Waddesdon bequest and the Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden / Ulrike Weinhold

Sculpture in the Waddesdon bequest / Jeremy Warren

The boxwood miniature tabernacle as a devotional toy / Dora Thornton with an appendix by Philip Fletcher

Text and image on Middle Eastern objects : the Palmer cup in context / Anna Contadini

Exploring a technological context in the British Museum : gilded and enamelled glass vessels of the Waddesdon bequest / William Gudenrath

Technical examination of the Waddesdon bequest : recent discoveries, future avenues / Andrew Meek, Denise Ling, Fleur Shearman, Joanne Dyer, Maickel van Bellegem and Susan La Niece

Art for the Rothschilds : the career of the dealer Frédéric Spitzer / Paola Cordera

"Nothing which made me doubt its authenticity" (Sir Augustus W. Franks, British Museum, 1877) : Salomon Weininger's forgeries and some aspects of their British fortune / Paulus Rainer

Research, interpretation and display of jewels in the Waddesdon bequest / Dora Thornton

Bibliography

Contributors

Illustration credits

Notes:

"An international conference was held at the British Museum in October 2015 to accompany the opening of a new gallery dedicated to the Waddesdon Bequest, the collection bequeathed to the British Museum in 1898 by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, MP; this volume presents the papers from the event"--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780861592128

0861592123

OCLC:

957139993