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[edit]Box, writing
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Edwin H Oliver |
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| Title |
Box, writing |
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| Object type | Classification: NM3.2714 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Box, writing, fitted top, sides and ends inlaid with New Zealand woods. Frame inlaid with New Zealand woods. Certificate for Order of Merit awarded to Edwin H Oliver. (Oliver made this writing box for the 1881 Dunedin Industrial Exhibition, where it was awarded the First Order of merit certificate, which he later framed. - gallery card) |
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| Date | Jun 1881-Aug 1881; Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901)-English reign; 1880 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Handmade | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 190mm |
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| Accession number |
1991.126.1 |
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| Place of creation | Dunedin; Christchurch | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Display: New Zealand Decorative Arts and Design, Encounter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | purchased with funds provided by Charles Edgar Disney Art Trust, 1991, collection of Auckland Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1991.126.1, F175, F175.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Inlaid writing box of New Zealand woods made by Edwin H Oliver and entered in Dunedin Industrial Exhibition, 1881. Certificate for Order of Merit awarded to Edwin H Oliver. Before his arrival in New Zealand in 1874, Edwin Oliver was apprenticed as a joiner and carpenter in Cornwall, England. In New Zealand he worked as a builder and cabinet maker in Christchurch, where he designed and built several houses. He was awarded the Certificate for Order of Merit at the Dunedin Industrial Exhibition 1881 for his ‘crazy quilt’ type writing box inlaid with New Zealand woods. |
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