A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (Oct 15-16, '15)

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H-Islamart Conference - A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (Oct 15-16, '15)

Discussion published by Yael Rice on Saturday, October 3, 2015

From: Farouk Yahya Date: October 1, 2015

A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum

Thursday 15 October & Friday 16 October 2015

Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum

9.00 Registration - Tea and coffee will be served outside the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, plus the new Waddesdon Bequest gallery (Room 2A) will be open for viewing. Relevant museum staff will be on hand in the gallery to discuss the digital elements and Tom Fotheringham, from the architects Stanton Williams, will be there to answer questions about the design.

10.00 Introduction - by Dr Dora Thornton (British Museum) and Pippa Shirley (Waddesdon Manor), and screening of Waddesdon Bequest film.

10.30 The Waddesdon Bequest – A New Look

Dr Dora Thornton (British Museum)

11.00 Contexts for Collecting: Inheritance,

Purchase, Sale, Tax and Bequest

Professor Peter Mandler (University of

Cambridge)

11.30 Baron Ferdinand Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor

Pippa Shirley (Waddesdon Manor)

12.00 Panel Discussion

Chair – Simon Jervis

12.30 LUNCH

13.30 Baron Ferdinand Rothschild’s ‘Renaissance Museum’: Treasures from the Smoking Room at Waddesdon

Citation: Yael Rice. Conference - A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (Oct 15-16, '15). H-Islamart. 10-03-2015. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/86686/conference-rothschild-renaissance-new-look-waddesdon-bequest Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Islamart

Rachel Boak

Hippocamp Pendant. Enamelled gold jewel set with emeralds and pearls. Probably French, early 19th century. British Museum WB.156.

14.00 Additions and Omissions: The Transfer of Bequest Objects from Waddesdon Manor to the British Museum

Gina Murphy (British Museum)

14.30 Scientific Analysis of the Waddesdon Bequest: Recent Discoveries, Future Avenues

Dr Andrew Meek (British Museum) and Dr Philip Fletcher (University of Bath)

15.00 Research and Presentation: Jewellery in the Waddesdon Bequest

Dr Dora Thornton (British Museum)

15.35 ‘Made Up’: Waddesdon Manor’s Smoking Room Jewels after 1898

Dr Phillippa Plock (Waddesdon Manor)

15.45 Panel Discussion

Chair – Philippa Glanville

Friday 16th October

9.00 The new Waddesdon Bequest gallery (Room 2A) will be open for viewing. Museum staff will be on hand in the gallery to discuss the digital elements.

10.00 A Question of Taste? Limoges Painted Enamels Collected by French and English Rothschilds in the 19th Century

Françoise Barbe (Louvre)

10.30 A Fascination for Curiosities: a Comparison of the Nautilus Shell Cup and the Bacchus Cup in the Waddesdon Bequest and the Grünes Gewölbe

Dr Ulrike Weinhold (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden)

11.00 Sculpture in the Waddesdon Bequest

Jeremy Warren (Independent Scholar)

11.30 (TBC) Boxwoods in the Waddeson Bequest

Dr Frits Scholten (Rijksmuseum)

12.00 Panel Discussion

Chair – Arthur MacGregor

12.30 LUNCH

13.30 The Art of Glass in the Waddesdon Bequest Recreating Renaissance Venetian and Medieval Islamic Glassworking Techniques

William Gudenrath (The Corning Museum of Glass)

14.00 The Palmer Cup and its Significance

Professor Anna Contadini (SOAS University of London)

14.30 Art for the Rothschilds: the Career of the Dealer Frédéric Spitzer

Paola Cordera

15.00 ‘Nothing Which Made Me Doubt its Authenticity’ (Sir Augustus W. Franks, British Museum, 1877) – Salomon Weininger’s Forgeries and Aspects of their British Fortune

Paulus Rainer

(Kunsthistoriches Museum)

16.00 Panel Discussion

Chair – Marian Campbell

16.30 CLOSE