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…