The Tattersall's Club cups: Queensland racing history in gold and silver 1884-1888, Dianne Byrne

Vol 41 no 4, Nov 2019
Article from Vol 41 no 4, Nov 2019

The Tattersall's Club cups: Queensland racing history in gold and silver 1884-1888, Dianne Byrne

Abstract:

Dianne Byrne shares some of the outcomes of her postgraduate research into 19th-century presentation jewellery and metalwork made in Queensland or for Queenslanders, focusing here on a series of racing trophies made in the 1880s for the Tattersall’s Club Cup run at Eagle Farm racecourse. Two of these were made by the previously neglected Sydney silversmith Thomas Matthew Alcock, and designed in an international ‘Etruscan’ style, which contrasts with the familiar vernacular style incorporating overtly Australian motifs such as emus and kangaroos.

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