museums and institutions:
Attributed works:
I. Music, by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98). 1877. Canvas, 67.7 by 43.5 cm. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax on the estate of Miss Jean Fiora Preston and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum. (WA2008.15).
Attributed works:
IX. Musician in a landscape. North India, Mughal, c.1575–80. Attributed to Basawan. Gouache with gold on paper, 9.6 by 6 cm. Purchased with funds provided by the Neil Kreitman Foundation in honour of Andrew Topsfield. (EA2008.81).
Attributed works:
X. A wind (Aeolus) unchained, by Giulio Romano (1499–1546). Preparatory drawing for a fresco compartment in the Camera dei Venti at the Palazzo Te, Mantua, decorated in 1527–28. Pen, brown ink and wash over black chalk, pricked for transfer, 32.8 by 27.7 cm. Presented by Charlotte Gere in accordance with the wishes of the late John Gere, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, London. (WA2007.77).
Attributed works:
XI. Study of a youth, by Cristofano Allori (1577–1621). c.1615. Black chalk on off-white paper, 21.0 by 16.7 cm. Presented by Mary-Jane Harris of New York City, in honour of Timothy Wilson and Catherine Whistler, through Americans for Oxford. (WA2006.59).
Attributed works:
XII. Salver on foot. London, 1688–89; mark of William Gamble. Silver, diameter 24.1 cm. Presented by the Executors of Mrs Corinne Whiteley. (WA2004.97)
Attributed works:
XIV. Tureen in the form of a boar’s head. Chelsea porcelain factory, c.1755–59. Soft-paste porcelain, red anchor mark; 27 cm. high. Purchased by tax-concessionary private treaty sale through Christie’s (Bouch, Madan, Jones, and Virtue-Tebbs funds), with the aid of the Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the Ashmolean, Martin Foley, the Oxford Ceramics Group and numerous private donors. (WA2007.1).
Attributed works:
XIX. Portrait of a lady, by Jan Cornelisz Verspronck (c.1606/9–62). Early 1640s. Canvas, 101.9 by 78.8 cm. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Ashmolean. (WA2004.102)
Attributed works:
XV. Osprey. Meissen factory, modelled by J.J. Kändler (1706–75). 1731. Hard-paste porcelain, 54.5 cm. high. Presented by a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. (WA2008.61)
Attributed works:
XVIII. Triumph of Love, by Titian (c.1485–1576). c.1545. Canvas mounted on panel, diameter 88.3 cm. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Ashmolean, hybrid purchase (Virtue-Tebbs, Madan and Russell Funds) with the assistance of the Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation), Daniel Katz Ltd, the Friends of the Ashmolean, the Tradescant Group, the Elias Ashmole Group, Michael Barclay, Roger Highfield, the late Yvonne Carey, the late Felicity Rhodes and other private donations. (WA 2008.89).
Attributed works:
XX. Seated shepherd with cows and sheep in a meadow, by Aelbert Cuyp (1620–91). c.1644. Panel, 48.3 by 74.3 cm. Signed lower right ‘A. Cuyp’. Purchased under the tax-concessionary scheme for private sales to museums, with the assistance of the Art Fund, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the Ashmolean, the Tradescant Group, the Elias Ashmole Group and a private donation. (WA2004.123)
Attributed works:
XXI. Cicero and his friends, Atticus and Quintus, at his Villa at Arpinum, by Richard Wilson (1713–82). c.1769–70. Canvas, 91.8 by 129.5 cm. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Ashmolean. (WA2007.155)
Attributed works:
XXII. Jerusalem, by Edward Lear (1812–88). Signed in monogram and dated ‘EL 1865’. Canvas, 81 by 161.6 cm. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax on the estates of Captain and Mrs L.E.D. Walthall and allocated to the Ashmolean. (WA2006.26)
Attributed works:
XXIII. The Prospect, by Samuel Palmer (1805–81). 1881. Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil on London board, 50.8 by 70.5 cm. Signed ‘SAMUEL PALMER’. Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Headley Trust, the Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, the Friends of the Ashmolean and many private donations following a public appeal. (WA2005.165)
Attributed works:
XXIV. Saint Florent le Vieil, by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851). Early 1830s. [date correct?] Watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper, 13.7 by 18.5 cm. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax on the estate of Audrey Sale and allocated to the Ashmolean. (WA2006.199)
Attributed works:
XXV. Mönchroda, by Lionel Feininger (1871–1956). Inscribed at lower centre ‘MÖNCHRODA’. Dated, lower right in black ink, ‘6 Dez. 1922’. Signed lower left in black ink ‘Feininger’. Pen and black ink and watercolour, 26 by 32 cm. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax on the estate of Sir James Colyer-Fergusson and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum. (WA2005.196)
Attributed works:
XXVI. One of a pair of six-fold screens, by Watanabe Seitei (1851–1918). c.1900. Colours on silver-foiled paper in lacquer frame, 60 by 174 cm. Purchased (Story Fund) with the help of the Art Fund, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the Ashmolean. (EA2004.9).
Attributed works:
XXVII. Lacquer writing set. Tomita Koshichi (1854–1910). Japan, mid-1890s to early 1900s. Lacquer on wood, writing box: 22.5 by 24.7 5.5 cm.; document box: 41.5 by 35.5 15.7 cm. Purchased (Story Fund) with the help of the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Art Fund and the Elias Ashmole Group. (EA2007.258–59).
Attributed works:
XXVIII. Reclining, by Jean Arp (1886–1966). 1960. Marble, 16.2 by 26 by 3.2 cm. Presented by the Trustees of Robert and Rena Lewin. (WA2007.2)
Non-western art unattributed:
VII. The mandala of Manjuvajra. Tibet, early fifteenth century. Gouache on cotton cloth, 49.5 by 41.3 cm. Purchased with funds provided by the Neil Kreitman Foundation in memory of Hyman and Irene Kreitman. (EA2007.246).
Non-western art unattributed:
VIII. Chandikeshvara. Tamilnadu, South India, late twelfth century. Bronze, 55 cm. high. Purchased in memory of J.C. Harle (Keeper of Eastern Art 1967–87), with the help of an anonymous benefactor. (EA2005.90).
Western art unattributed:
II. Hair-ring. Late Bronze Age, c.1200–700 BC. Gold leaf on a metal core, diameter 2 cm. Found at Combe, Oxfordshire, in 1911. Presented by J.M. Joslin in memory of his father John Joslin and his grandfather John Joslin. (AN2005.17).
Western art unattributed:
III. The Wilshere Collection of thirty-six fragments of gold-glass and twenty-three sculptured reliefs and inscriptions. Fourth century AD. Acquired from the Governors of Pusey House, Oxford, with the aid of The Art Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund and the Patrons, Friends, Young Friends and private benefactors of the Ashmolean. (AN2007.13).
Western art unattributed:
IV. Altar. First century AD. Marble, 66 cm. high. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax on the estate of Sir Howard Colvin and allocated to the Ashmolean. (AN2008.47).
Western art unattributed:
V. The Chalgrove II Hoard with coin of Domitianus II. 4,957 Roman base silver coins spanning 251 to 279 AD, in a Roman grey-ware jar. Acquired from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, with the aid of The Art Fund, the Headley Trust for Treasure, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Carl & Eileen Subak Family Foundation and the Friends of the Ashmolean. (HCR6365).
Western art unattributed:
VI. Ottoman embroidered wall-hanging. Turkey, sixteenth century. Linen with silk embroidery, 237 by 130 cm. Purchased with the aid of the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund. (EA2007.104)
Western art unattributed:
XIII. Ewer and basin. London 1592–93. Silver-gilt, diameter of basin, 41.2 cm; ewer, 29.8 cm. high. Maker’s mark of IN or TN above a mullet. Formerly in the collection of Sir Ernest Cassel. Purchased (France Fund) through Sotheby’s with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Friends of the Ashmolean, with donations from Diane Bacon and Helen Smyth in memory of their Grandfather A.H. Whiteley, Mr and Mrs Brian Wilson, Mr and Mrs Michael Pix, Lady Heseltine and other donors. (WA2005.131).
Western art unattributed:
XVI. Maiolica dish with Alcyone and Ceyx. Italian, probably Pesaro, c.1500. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 29.4 cm. Purchased (Madan Fund) with the aid of the Art Fund, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the Ashmolean and private donations. (WA2006.3)
Western art unattributed:
XVII. Jug painted with grotesques. London (Southwark), c.1635–40. Tin-glazed earthenware (delftware), 28 cm. high. Initialled on the neck with D over IE. Purchased at the sale at Christie’s of works from the collection of the late Simon Sainsbury, with the aid of the Art Fund, the MLA/V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the Ashmolean, Martin Foley, Sir Harry Djanogly, the Oxford Ceramics Group and other donors. (WA2008.65)
