Alice von Rothschild was particularly interested in arts and crafts of the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including enamel, metal work, painting, and smoking pipes, but especially embrodieries on, or taken from, ecclesiastical vestments. Many of her acquisitions were displayed or stored at Eythrope, and after Alice von Rothschild inherited Waddesdon, many of the objects were moved to her new domicile.
Alice von Rothschild spent most of her time in her villa 'Villa Victoria' near Grasse, southern France. Queen Victoria visited her there.
Source: BOAK, Rachel (2013). Sacred Stitches. Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor/National Trust, pp. 12-13.
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