DECANTERS
Medium
2 decanters (formerly used by Governor La Trobe)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Sir Thomas Dunhill, 1956
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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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
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal and box
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
INCENSE BURNER
Rockingham (manufacturer)
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
Kubus, stacking storage containers
Wilhelm WAGENFELD (designer); Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke A.G., Weisswasser (manufacturer)
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris, medal
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Self-portrait
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Belt buckle (Bust of a woman)
PIEL FRÈRES, Paris (manufacturer)
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
EWER
CHELSEA (manufacturer)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
TUMBLER
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
Bonds Emission poster for the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry
Henri RAPIN
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
RING
BOWL & COVER
Swansea (manufacturer)
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
CANDLESTICK
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE