Waddesdon Bequest

Mu 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild wakapeleka ku British Museum vinthu ivyo vikaŵa mu chipinda chake cha New Smoking ku Waddesdon Manor. Mu nyumba iyi mukaŵa vinthu vinandi vya maluso na maluso pafupifupi 300, kusazgapo majuda, mbale, visulo, vyakuŵaja, magalasi, na vinthu vinyake. Chimoza mwa vinthu vyakwambilira ivi ni malo ghakuchemeka Holy Thorn Reliquary, agho ghakwenera kuti ghakaŵako mu 1390 ku Paris kwa John, Duke of Berry. Vinthu ivi vili nga umo vikaŵira mu nyumba ya usambazi, nga umo vikaŵira na ŵakaronga ŵa mu nyengo ya Renaissance ku Europe.

Kuyana na ndondomeko ya manambara gha mu kabuku ka museyamu, ndipo na nambara yakwamba ya chigaŵa chilichose, chiharo ichi chili na vinthu ivi: "viŵiya vya mkuŵa", vyakuyegheramo na chakukandira (WB.1); vilwero, vyakuvwara na visulo (WB.5); visulo (WB.19); gilasi (WB.53); maolica gha ku Italy (WB.60); "viŵiya na vinyake mu golide na libwe" (WB.66); mbale ya siliva (WB.87); majoya (WB.147); vyakuvwara (WB.201); "mabokosi, na vinyake" (WB.217); vyakuŵaja mu khuni na libwe (WB.231 ̇265). Palije gulu la vithuzithuzi, ndipo WB.174, vithuzithuzi vyakutowa pa visalu vya makuni, vikusangika pamoza na majuda.

Vinthu ivi vikapangika kuti viwovwire pa malo ghanyake, kweniso kuti viwovwire munthu kuti waŵe na maghanoghano ghakwenelera. Vinthu vinyake ivyo Ferdinand Rothschild wakasanganga vikupambana chomene na ivyo wakakhumbanga. Apa, ivyo vikakondweska Ferdinand Rothschild ni vinthu vyakutowa, vyakuzengeka makora, vyakutowa comene, na vyakuwoneka makora vya mu nyengo ya kuumaliro ya ku Gothic, Renaissance, na Mannerist. Vinthu vichoko waka ivyo ŵakavwara vikaŵa vyambura kusuzga kuvwara panji vyakuvwara vya Baroque. Nyumba yiphya iyo yikulongora vinthu ivi, yikamba kusangika pa 11 Juni 2015.