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BY HENRY STEINER, CIRCA 1880
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AN AUSTRALIAN SILVER MOUNTED PRESENTATION EMU EGG
By Henry Steiner, circa 1880
The vertically mounted egg with a kangaroo finial and pair of lyre-bird handles, opening to reveal a quilted interior with a pair of scent bottles fashioned from silver mounted nuts; the support in the form of a naturalistically cast tree fern and foliage with an emu, dead kangaroo and an aborigine brandishing a spear beneath; on a conical foot, and turned ebonised base mounted with a grape adorned plaque engraved: 'PRESENTED TO THE REV M. J. BIRKS BY THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHURCH ADELAIDE AUGUST 1883', fully marked 'H STEINER ADELAIDE', and an associated glass dome
See illustration
By Henry Steiner, circa 1880
The vertically mounted egg with a kangaroo finial and pair of lyre-bird handles, opening to reveal a quilted interior with a pair of scent bottles fashioned from silver mounted nuts; the support in the form of a naturalistically cast tree fern and foliage with an emu, dead kangaroo and an aborigine brandishing a spear beneath; on a conical foot, and turned ebonised base mounted with a grape adorned plaque engraved: 'PRESENTED TO THE REV M. J. BIRKS BY THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHURCH ADELAIDE AUGUST 1883', fully marked 'H STEINER ADELAIDE', and an associated glass dome
See illustration
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