LUSTRE
1810-1830
Medium
Central gilt metal balustroid column with cut glass candle sconce, brilliant-cut buttons & prisms
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1972
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
JAR
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
Blind faith
HJ Wedge
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
Ecstasy
André MASSON
COAL SCUTTLE
Commemorative Certificate awarded at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Louis Pierre RIGAL (draughtsman); Omer BOUCHERY (etcher)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
A la ville Albane
UNKNOWN
The pioneer
Frederick McCUBBIN
TAPPIT-HENS
Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera)
Francesco GUARDI
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal and box
Pierre TURIN (designer)
The victory of faith
St George HARE
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris, medal
Pierre TURIN (designer)
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris. Christofle and Baccarat Pavilion, postcard
FRANCE
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
Eldorado pulcheria, ewer
AURELIANO TOSO DECORATIVE GLASSWORKS, Murano (manufacturer); Dino MARTENS (designer)
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
MEDALLION PORTRAIT