Cups from the Spetchley Park kunstkammer

Sotheby’s (25% buyer’s premium) sale of art and antiques from the Regency manor house Spetchley Park in Wychavon, Worcestershire, held in London on December 11, included a range of ‘kunstkammer’ objects amassed by the Berkeley family in the 19th century.

Robert Berkeley (1764-1845), a High Commissioner of Worcester who built the house in Bath stone on…

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