The Wellby Gallery and Objects from the Wellby Collection

Hear more about the Wellby Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, from Professor Tim Wilson, Barrie and Deedee Wigmore Research Keeper, and Matthew Winterbottom, curator of late 19th-century British Sculpture and Decorative Arts.
A new, permanent display of Michael Wellby's generous 2012 bequest, is now open at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Michael Wellby bequeathed his extraordinary collection of Renaissance silver and exotica to the Ashmolean in 2012. Comprising over 500 pieces, it consists primarily of spectacular goldsmiths’ work made in Continental Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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The ingenuity of craftsmanship in these works is astonishing.

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