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 that it should reflect the great princely treasure chambers ‎(‎Kunstkammer‎)‎ preserved in Dresden‎,‎ Vienna‎,‎ Innsbruck‎,‎ and elsewhere‎.‎ Many of these objects have never been previously published‎.‎ This beautiful and accessible book introduces over sixty of the prime pieces from this astonishing addition to the Ashmolean‎,‎ presenting material of the type incomparably superior to anything in other UK museums outside London‎.‎ Both authors are specialists in European decorative arts of the Renaissance and later periods‎.‎