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© Ashmolean Museum
Twenty Six Gold Boxes
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1948
- Presented by
- Children of Mr & Mrs Henry van der Bergh through The Art Fund
A collection of gold-mounted snuff and other boxes, mainly French.
Art we’ve helped buy at Ashmolean Museum
The Bacon Cup
Acquired 2021
Portrait of a Woman
Acquired 2021
Untitled
Acquired 2019
Untitled
Acquired 2019
One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo Hyakkei )
Acquired 2020
Persian felt and applique hanging
Acquired 2018
High Street, Oxford
Acquired 2016
Watlington Hoard
Acquired 2016
An Allegory Of Joy And Melancholy
Acquired 2016
816 Late Byzantine coins
Acquired 2000
Young Woman with a Macaw
Acquired 1955
Young Love Birds
Acquired 1968
Wrestlers II
Acquired 2002
Wilshere Collection
Acquired 2007
White Carrot
Acquired 2003
West Walton Church, Norfolk
Acquired 1923
Vue de L'Entree du Jardin de la Tirelira
Acquired 1938
Virgin and Child
Acquired 1948
Virgin and Child
Acquired 1946
View over Flat Country
Acquired 1946
View on the Meuse
Acquired 1988
View of the Tiber Valley
Acquired 1992
View of the Piazzetta and Libreria
Acquired 1949
View of the Coliseum
Acquired 1926
View of St Mary's Abbey, York
Acquired 1923
View of Edinburgh from the West, near Craigleith Quarry
Acquired 1963
View of a village street
Acquired 1921
View of a seashore
Acquired 1935
Vesuvius and Somma from the Naples Mole
Acquired 1924
Untitled
Acquired 2010
Two Lovers in a Starlit Garden
Acquired 2002
Two Bozzetti of Apostles St Philip & St Matthew
Acquired 1965
Twenty Six Gold Boxes
Acquired 1948
Trott's Lane & A Rose
Acquired 1967
Trainerspotting
Acquired 2002
Torso of Vishnu
Acquired 2001
Tomb cloth
Acquired 2004
Time unveiling Truth
Acquired 2007
The Young Stonebreaker
Acquired 1997
The West Front of Castle Rising Church, Norfolk
Acquired 1922
The Waterfall
Acquired 1968
The Water Tower, York
Acquired 1953
The Vision of St Jerome
Acquired 2012_Mahon
The Virgin and Child with Angels
Acquired 1978
The Virgin and Child
Acquired 1948
The Virgin and Child
Acquired 1972
The Virgin and Child
Acquired 1942
The Vale of Dedham from Langham
Acquired 1929
The Triumph of Love
Acquired 2008
The Supper at Emmaus
Acquired 1988
The Spanish Fury
Acquired 1996
The Seamstress
Acquired 1988
The Royal Oak Inn
Acquired 1953
The Rissik Marshall Collection
Acquired 1958
The Resurrection of Christ
Acquired 1946
The Raising of the Cross
Acquired 1970
The Raising of Dorcas (Tabitha)
Acquired 1992
The Purveyor for the Embassy at Macao
Acquired 1963
The Prospect
Acquired 2005
The Painter Clément in Turkish Costume
Acquired 1976
The Oath of Semiramis
Acquired 2012_Mahon
The Nativity
Acquired 1953
The Mildmay monteith
Acquired 2000
The Marriage Contract
Acquired 1952
The Madonna of the Rosary with Saints
Acquired 1998
The Madonna and Child
Acquired 1932
The Little Nurse
Acquired 1972
The Journey to Emmaus
Acquired 1929
The Infant St John the Baptist
Acquired 1963
The Holy Family with St John the Baptist
Acquired 2012_Mahon
The Holderness Cross
Acquired 1999
The Game of Draughts
Acquired 1978
The Forest Fire
Acquired 1933
The Flowers of the Four Seasons
Acquired 1992
The Exposition of Moses
Acquired 1950
The Eve of Separation
Acquired 1929
The Entombment of Christ
Acquired 1997
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Acquired 1936
The Creation of Eve
Acquired 1961
The Costumes of China
Acquired 2003
The Coronation of Henri IV of France
Acquired 2002
The Choice of Hercules
Acquired 1980
The Bull Fight
Acquired 1999
The Brickyard
Acquired 1968
The Birth of St John the Baptist
Acquired 1972
The Arundel Homerus
Acquired 1985
The Annoni-Visconti Marriage Bowl
Acquired 1997
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Acquired 1937
Thangka from Buryatia and Tsakli
Acquired 2009
Tankard
Acquired 2001
Swan Bowl, No.1
Acquired 2006
Summer
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Study of Two Hands holding a Cast of Drapery
Acquired 1937
Study of Trees & Plant Study
Acquired 1980
Study of Blossom
Acquired 1940
Study of a Monk
Acquired 1937
Study of a devout Spanish Girl
Acquired 2002
Study for the Consecration of a Church
Acquired 2000
Studio pottery
Acquired 2002
Still Life of Flowers and Vegetables
Acquired 1934
Still Life
Acquired 1980
Statuette of Blaise Pascal
Acquired 1986
Statue of an Athenian lady
Acquired 1917
Statue of a nude youth
Acquired 1976
Standing Figure of Vishnu
Acquired 1996
Stamping Coinage in the Mint, Calcutta
Acquired 1980
Spring
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Sparrows and Fruiting Tree
Acquired 2000
Some Old Master drawings
Acquired 1940
Small Naked Portrait
Acquired 1989
Skye
Acquired 2002
Sketch for a ceiling decoration
Acquired 1933
Silver cup
Acquired 2002
Silver bowl
Acquired 1964
Siena
Acquired 2008
Shipping in a Breeze
Acquired 2002
Sheet of figure studies
Acquired 2002
Sheba and Solomon
Acquired 2001
Shallow bowl
Acquired 2003
Self Portrait
Acquired 1997
Selection of 11 drawings
Acquired 1940
Seated Shepherd with Cows and Sheep in a Landscape
Acquired 2004
Seascape - 'Sailing ships entering a Harbour'
Acquired 1935
Ruins in the Alban Hills
Acquired 2003
Ruins and figures
Acquired 1929
Rosamund and the Purple Jar (study)
Acquired 1937
Rome seen through an arch of the Colosseum
Acquired 1997
Roman relief portrait
Acquired 1966
Rococo watch and case
Acquired 1988
Road to Emmaus (studies) & The Woman of Samaria
Acquired 1937
Richmond, Yorkshire & The Fishing Fleet
Acquired 1931
Reclining woman with child
Acquired 1989
Ramparts of Montreuil
Acquired 1949
Ram from the Tirhaqa Temple, Kawa
Acquired 1931
Pumas
Acquired 1968
Proctor-Mosley ewer & basin
Acquired 2005
Portrait of William Fermor
Acquired 1978
Portrait of Thomas Balston
Acquired 1968
Portrait of the Earl of Arundel
Acquired 1993
Portrait of the Artist
Acquired 1955
Portrait of Soldan Lawrence (verso: Girl's Head)
Acquired 2002
Portrait of Sir Dudley Carleton
Acquired 2003
Portrait of Sir Charles Frederick
Acquired 1980
Portrait of Osbert Sitwell
Acquired 1968
Portrait of Mary Thomas, the Artist's Second Wife
Acquired 1979
Portrait of Mary Ellen Meredith
Acquired 2003
Portrait of Maggi Hambling
Acquired 2002
Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus
Acquired 2012
Portrait of Lady Holland
Acquired 2003
Portrait of John Guise
Acquired 1981
Portrait of Giacomo Doria
Acquired 2000
Portrait of George Drummond
Acquired 1955
Portrait of Francis Douce
Acquired 1999
Portrait of Francis Bacon
Acquired 2002
Portrait of Francesco Mignarelli
Acquired 1943
Portrait of Charles Robert Cockerell
Acquired 1998
Portrait of an Elderly Man, aged 70
Acquired 1979
Portrait of Alexandre Forest
Acquired 1936
Portrait of a Young Woman, thought to be Rosa Spisani
Acquired 1981
Portrait of a Young Man holding a Skull
Acquired 1946
Portrait of a Young Man
Acquired 1983
Portrait of a Sculptor
Acquired 1952
Portrait of a Sculptor
Acquired 1952
Portrait of a Lady wearing a black Mantilla
Acquired 1935
Porcelain Tray
Acquired 2015
Poor Folk & Studies of Dorelia with a baby and child
Acquired 1968
Ponte d'Agosto, Rimini
Acquired 1931
Pharmacy jar
Acquired 1999
Perfume burner
Acquired 2003
Pendant-seal: Winter/Garden Nymph protecting a flower
Acquired 2002
Peggy Jean
Acquired 1945
Paysage avec Pont, allee d'un Jardin
Acquired 1989
Paul loses his Hat
Acquired 1968
Pastoral with a Horse-Chestnut Tree
Acquired 1929
Pair of six-fold screens: Flowers of the Four Seasons
Acquired 1970
Pair of six-fold screens
Acquired 1979
Pair of gold hair ornaments
Acquired 1974
Pair of folding screens: Flowers of the Twelve Months
Acquired 2004
Painting of a Bishop-Saint
Acquired 1985
Ottoman velvet textile
Acquired 2001
Ottoman candlestick
Acquired 1991
Old Chelsea's Last Regatta
Acquired 1968
Notes, too
Acquired 2007
Noli ne tangere
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Near Richmond, Yorkshire
Acquired 1949
Near Bettws y Coed
Acquired 1963
Nature morte aux Sculptures en Porcelain
Acquired 1989
Mythological Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Moving Visions Series no. 83 and Moving Visions 140919
Acquired 2016
Montfermeil, le Ruisseau sous Bois
Acquired 1989
Meiji vase with design of birds and flowers
Acquired 2010
Marriage of Antiochus and Stratonice
Acquired 1946
Marble altar
Acquired 1992
Maiolica plate
Acquired 1992
Maiolica jug
Acquired 2004
Maiolica dish: The Departure of Ceyx
Acquired 2006
Maiolica dish
Acquired 1996
Maiolica Basin
Acquired 2001
Maidens Pier, Ayrshire
Acquired 1935
Maharaja Pratap Singh of Sawar on a Horse
Acquired 1993
Magdalen College and High Street, Oxford
Acquired 1923
Macao; a Ruin with Cows
Acquired 2002
Looking West from Martigues
Acquired 1935
Little Moor Farm
Acquired 1968
Limehouse Basin
Acquired 2002
Lid of a Cordovan ivory box
Acquired 1987
Landscape with Repose of the Holy Family
Acquired 1932
Landscape with Figures outside Alkmaar
Acquired 1989
Landscape with a river
Acquired 1925
Landscape with a Horseman and Two Soldiers
Acquired 1987
Landscape with a figure
Acquired 1989
Landscape near Muiderberg
Acquired 1955
Landscape in the Roman Campagna
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Landscape in the Roman Campagna
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Landscape
Acquired 1932
Lake Piediluco, Umbria
Acquired 1931
Lacquer writing set
Acquired 2007
La Division de Place & Diversion de Espana
Acquired 1934
Jug with grotesque decoration
Acquired 2008
Joseph Priestley
Acquired 1989
Jewelled brooch
Acquired 1972
Japanese lacquer cabinet in Namban style
Acquired 1998
Israelites gathering Manna
Acquired 1920
Intaglio of Isis and Serapis
Acquired 2009
Imari porcelain
Acquired 2011
Illustrations to the 'Divine Comedy' by Dante
Acquired 1919
Ideal Head
Acquired 1996
House near the Estuary of a River
Acquired 1943
Horatius Cocles defending the Bridge
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Head of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
Acquired 2011
Head of Noneen (Head of a Girl)
Acquired 1968
Head of an Old Man
Acquired 2012_Mahon
Head of a Woman in a Whimple Head-Dress
Acquired 1972
Head of a Boy
Acquired 1968
Hawk on a Perch
Acquired 2005
Hampstead Heath
Acquired 1968
Group of works on paper
Acquired 1997
Greystone
Acquired 2001
Greenwich Park and the River
Acquired 1963
Grange Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland
Acquired 1936
Grain tower
Acquired 2007
Gold pendant
Acquired 1950
Glass plate with a view of SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Acquired 1997
Girls dressing
Acquired 1947
Girl with a Hoe
Acquired 1988
Girl Feeding Chickens
Acquired 1988
Gilbert Cannan at his Mill
Acquired 1968
Four albums of drawings
Acquired 2006
Four Album Leaves
Acquired 1980
Figure of Standing Parvati
Acquired 1988
Farmyard at Princes Risborough
Acquired 1929
Ewer & basin
Acquired 1974
Etna from Taormina; Dawn & Boston Stump; Sunset
Acquired 1929
Engraved dish
Acquired 1994
Embroidered Islamic tunic
Acquired 1998
Embroidered hanging: Musical Party in an Exotic Setting
Acquired 1991
Eight prints 1936-74
Acquired 2015
Early Medieval gold and garnet sword button
Acquired 2012
Drawing of two cupids
Acquired 1942
Drawing of three figures
Acquired 1940
Design for an ornamental border
Acquired 1992
Design for All Souls Chapel
Acquired 2002
Design for a monument to Pope Clement XI
Acquired 2003
Death and the Girl (maiden)
Acquired 1947
Dead Christ supported by an Angel
Acquired 1958
Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John
Acquired 2011
Cows at Cookham
Acquired 1968
Collision of Particles
Acquired 2009
Collection of twenty-five drawings
Acquired 1970
Collection of silver plate
Acquired 1947
Collection of silver
Acquired 1946
Collection of prints
Acquired 1946
Collection of Portrait Engravings
Acquired 1951
Collection of miniature cups, teabowls and saucers
Acquired 2009
Collection of gold boxes
Acquired 1960
Collection of furniture
Acquired 1967
Collection of drawings, prints and sketchbooks
Acquired 2009
Collection of drawings
Acquired 1943
Collection of British Studio Pottery
Acquired 2004
Collection of 82 prints and 33 sketchbooks
Acquired 1995
Collection of 6 Indian sculptures and a painting
Acquired 1961
Collection of 14 coins
Acquired 1988
Coast Scene with Fisherfolk gathering Seaweed
Acquired 1988
Christian descending into the Valley of Humiliation
Acquired 1929
Christ Church College, Oxford
Acquired 2002
Christ Carrying the Cross
Acquired 1955
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Acquired 1986
Chintz hanging from the Coromandel Coast
Acquired 2008
Chinese ritual vessel
Acquired 1996
Chalgrove II Hoard
Acquired 2004
Ceiling Sketch for Mannheim Castle
Acquired 1938
Cattle and Haystack, Twilight & Essex Fields
Acquired 1929
Catching the Steamer
Acquired 1947
Castle Crag, Derwentwater
Acquired 1923
Capriccio Landscape with Figures, a Bridge over a Stream
Acquired 1989
Calm Contortion Wine Cooler
Acquired 2010
Caitya sculpture
Acquired 1999
Bust of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
Acquired 1987
Bust of Marie de Medicis
Acquired 2000
Bust of Edward Salter, aged six
Acquired 1999
Bust of a Cardinal
Acquired 1959
Bramerton Hills near Norwich
Acquired 1927
Bouquet de Roses dans un Vase
Acquired 1989
Boar's Head Tureen
Acquired 2006
Berck, Cloudy Landscape
Acquired 1989
Bell salt
Acquired 2005
Basin with the arms of Spannocchi
Acquired 2004
Attendant bodhisattva
Acquired 1999
Assyrian relief
Acquired 1933
Apples in a Bag
Acquired 1968
Animals and birds in a landscape
Acquired 1953
Anglo-Saxon bowl
Acquired 1977
Angelica encountering the wounded Medoro
Acquired 2012_Mahon
An Exhibition at the Old Town Hall, Oxford
Acquired 2004
An Allegory of Life and Death (study)
Acquired 1937
An Allegory of Justice and Vanity
Acquired 1939
Album of portrait drawings
Acquired 1992
Album of drawings
Acquired 2002
Abraham and Hagar Surprised by Sarah
Acquired 1997
A Wooded Valley, Painswick & Old Water Mill, Bridgenorth
Acquired 1931
A View of Southampton water
Acquired 1963
A view of Golding, Constable's House at East Bergholt
Acquired 1925
A View of Culzean Castle, Ayshire
Acquired 1963
A Study of Henry Irving as Becket
Acquired 1968
A Seated Bodhisattva
Acquired 1983
A Ruined House
Acquired 1931
A Portrait of Mrs Fuseli
Acquired 1938
A Mourning Knight
Acquired 1964
A Man leading a Horse
Acquired 1937
A Highland Scene - 'In Connernara'
Acquired 1935
A Head of a Woman
Acquired 1981
A Farmyard with a Well
Acquired 1939
A collection of Japanese metalwork sword fittings
Acquired 1997
A Beach Scene with Fisherfolk
Acquired 1963
9th century seated Buddha
Acquired 1997
21 pieces of Meiji ceramics
Acquired 2014
10 landscape drawings
Acquired 1925
1) Figure on horseback; 2) Delacroix letter
Acquired 2008
1) Coast Scene; 2) Scene on a Rocky Coast
Acquired 1931Nominally inspired by Lucretius' De rerum natura, Piero di Cosimo's The Forest Fire takes its scientific subject and embellishes it with fantastical creatures from the artist's imagination: Bulls, bears, lions and deer-like creatures with human faces all flee wearily from a fire.
Rubens' portrait of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel dates from about 1629. The Earl was a great collector, and Rubens had painted the earl's wife a few years earlier on a visit to Antwerp. This drawing in pen and ink with a chalk base is unusually informal, reflecting perhaps the comfortable relationship between artist and patron.
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