Jar
(early 11th century)
Medium
eathenware
Measurements
17.7 × 15.3 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
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Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
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Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
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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
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Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
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Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
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Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
André GIRARD
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Commemorative Certificate awarded at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Louis Pierre RIGAL (draughtsman); Omer BOUCHERY (etcher)
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
CANDLESTICK
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Self-portrait
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
MEASURE WITH LID
Belt buckle (Bust of a woman)
PIEL FRÈRES, Paris (manufacturer)
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
The pioneer
Frederick McCUBBIN
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
WINE CAN
Zurich (manufacturer)
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER