CAP PIECE
Medium
silk embroidery on velvet, maroon ground, design in silver metal thread with glass beads
Measurements
L.15.2cm W.12.7cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Hughes Stefanovic, 1969
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
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Lace
(FRANCE)
Skirt
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer)
Dress
MOSCHINO, Milan (fashion house); Franco MOSCHINO (designer)
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
Bonnet
FRANCE
Sampler
Margaret FOSTER
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Dress
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
BROOCH
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
LENGTH OF FABRIC
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Boots
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer); Sarah BURTON (designer)
Day dress
(FRANCE)
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Jacket
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer)
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
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