Kingston Lacy, Dorset
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Kingston Lacy houses the oldest established gentry collection of paintings in Britain, with works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Titian and Tintoretto. Kingston Lacy houses the largest private collection of Egyptian artefacts in the UK. There is an extraordinary ivory-inlaid and ivory-mounted rosewood cabinet on stand – one of the finest examples of Visakhapatnam furniture in any English collection. The magnificent family library, one of the Trust's largest early collections, includes roughly 1450 pre-1801 books, including the magnificent Jean de Planche binding for Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510–79).