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 <[email protected]> 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) 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. 2 H-Islamart 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 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. 3.