A presentation casket with carving by John K. Blogg, 1915, Sarah Guest

Vol 44 no 2, May 2022
Article from Vol 44 no 2, May 2022

A presentation casket with carving by John K. Blogg, 1915, Sarah Guest

Abstract:

The box seen here shows the superb carving of John Kendrick Blogg, a successful and entrepreneurial industrial chemist who was born in 1851 in Canada, settled in the Surrey Hills region of Victoria in 1877 and died in 1936. His day job involved making perfumes and extracting essential oils. Family legend has it that he began making furniture and ornamental wooden carvings after the death of his first wife, Annie, in 1893. This box carries several examples of his carving and, in terms of Australiana, is as good as it gets.

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