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Tea and coffee service

Tea and coffee service
(c. 1886)

Medium
silver, silver-gilt, ivory

Measurements
(a) 23.4 × 25.1 × 15.8 cm (coffee pot)
(b) 20.3 × 24.4 × 15.3 cm (teapot)
(c-d) 18.7 × 21.2 × 13.7 cm (overall) (sugar bowl)
(e) 13.0 × 14.8 × 9.7 cm (milk jug)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Altmann Collection of Australian Silver. Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by John and Jan Altmann, Founder Benefactors, 1979

Gallery location
Gallery 5
Level 2, NGV Australia

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Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales

Inscription
(a) engraved in rear c.: Presented to / W. F. Hurley Esqre (.. under re) / BY THE RESIDENTS OF SUNNY CORNER / AS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES / AS THE PIONEER OF SILVER MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES / and the high esteem in which he is held as a Citizen / April 1886
punched (vertically) in base c.: EVAN JONES / SYDNEY
(b) engraved in rear c.: Presented to / W. F. Hurley Esqre (.. under re) / BY THE RESIDENTS OF SUNNY CORNER / AS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES / AS THE PIONEER OF SILVER MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES / and the high esteem in which he is held as a Citizen / April 1886
punched (diagonally) in base c.: EVAN JONES / SYDNEY
(c) engraved in rear c.: Presented to / W. F. Hurley Esqre (.. under re) / BY THE RESIDENTS OF SUNNY CORNER / AS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES / AS THE PIONEER OF SILVER MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES / and the high esteem in which he is held as a Citizen / April 1886
punched (vertically) in base c.: EVAN JONES / SYDNEY
(e) engraved on back: Presented to / W. F. Hurley Esqre (.. under re) / BY THE RESIDENTS OF SUNNY CORNER / AS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES / AS THE PIONEER OF SILVER MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES / and the high esteem in which he is held as a Citizen / April 1886
punched in base c.: EVAN JONES / SYDNEY

Accession Number
D225.a-e-1979

Department
Australian Decorative Arts

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