BUTTONS
Medium
6 antique silver gilt buttons for national fete costume
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1928
Gallery location
Not on display
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BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Lace
(FRANCE)
The victory of faith
St George HARE
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Dress with body chains
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
Dress
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
CAP
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Black bunny ears hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Stephen JONES (designer)
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
SEAT
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Hat
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Skin heel boots
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Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
Iris, platform sandals
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Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
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Cap
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Textile
William MORRIS
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