Adelaide Hunt Club Cup, 1881 by Henry Steiner

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The highly important Adelaide Hunt Club Cup of 1881, 18ct gold, by Henry Steiner, modelled to a neoclassical form, with an elongated scroll handle, an inverted spout, the collared neck with a band of acanthus leaves above a tapered body bearing the inscription: 'Adelaide Hunt Club Cup/ 1881/ Presented by/ R. Barr Smith/ Won by/ Robertson Bros. B. G. Roebuck./ Ridden by/ T.J.Baker', terminating in an applied band of palm fronds on a circular foot capped by acanthus leaves. Marks: H.Steiner (Crown) Adelaide/ 18.C, identical marks to foot with the omittance of Crown, 585 gms, 36.3 high cm. Provenance: Robertson Brothers, South Australia, Private Collection, Adelaide, Megaw and Hogg Auctions, Adelaide, 12 November 1984, J.B. Hawkins Antiques, acquired from the above, Mr Kerry Packer AC, Sydney, acquired from the above, J.B. Hawkins Antiques, acquired from the above, Koopman Rare Art, London, 1995-1996, J.B. Hawkins Antiques, The Vizard Foundation Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above, The Vizard Foundation Collection & Other Important Australian Gold & Silver, Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 4 April 2012, lot 100, illustrated, Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above, Exhibited, Australian Gold and Silver 1851-1900, Sydney Mint Museum, Sydney, March 1995 - March 1996, illustrated, All that Glitters: Australian Colonial Gold and Silver from The Vizard Foundation, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 12 December 2001 - 3 March 2002, no. 31, illustrated, On long-term loan to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002-2005, On long term-loan to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2012-2016, Literature, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 13 November 1984, p. 1 (illustrated), J.B. Hawkins, Nineteenth Century Australian Silver, Antique Collectors Club, Suffolk, England, 1990, vol. 2, pp. 164 (illustrated), 195 (illustrated), Eva Czernis-Ryl (ed), Australian Gold and Silver 1851-1900, Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 1995, plate 17, p. 29 (illustrated), Brian Hubber (ed.), All that Glitters: Australian Colonial Gold and Silver from The Vizard Foundation, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 2001, plates XXIII, XXIV, Eva Czernis-Ryl and Kenneth Cavill, Brilliant: Australian Gold and Silver 1851-1950, Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 2011, plate 85, p. 54 (illustrated), Robert Reason, Bounty: Nineteenth-Century South Australian Gold and Silver, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2012, p. 128 (illustrated)

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Acanthus - A stylized leaf motif, one of the primary decorative elements of classical Greek and Roman architecture, derived from the genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Mediterranean area. It is a common element in classical Greek and Roman design, and is often seen in Corinthian and Composite order columns and used as a decorative element in English, European and Australian furniture, particularly on the curve of a leg, and as decoration for a corbel.
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