EPERGNE
Medium
Emu on rocky base with palm trees & leaves, stand of mirror surrounded by rocks & shells
Measurements
H.25",D.17"(base)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr E.J. Reed, 1964
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
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Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
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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
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Belt buckle (Bust of a woman)
PIEL FRÈRES, Paris (manufacturer)
Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
International Exposition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Paul-Marcel DAMMANN (designer)
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Eldorado pulcheria, ewer
AURELIANO TOSO DECORATIVE GLASSWORKS, Murano (manufacturer); Dino MARTENS (designer)
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal
Pierre TURIN (designer)
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
JAR
Windsor bench
(UNITED STATES) (manufacturer)
SPURS
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris. Christofle and Baccarat Pavilion, postcard
FRANCE