85/1869 Music box, earthenware, Stefan Szonyi, Victoria, Australia, 1985

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85/1869 Music box, earthenware, Stefan Szonyi, Victoria, Australia, 1985

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Music box, earthenware, Stefan Szonyi, Victoria, Australia, 1985

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Music box, earthenware, Stefan Szonyi, Victoria, Australia, 1985

Earthenware case, top decorated with modelled Australian fauna - campfire scene with wombat boiling a billy, cockatoo eating a sausage and galah sitting on a stump nearby; front decorated with acrylic painted Australian landscape; metal winder with ceramic painted handle; tune is Brahms' Lullaby.

Made: 1985

Registration number

85/1869

Production date

1985

Height

215 mm

Width

125 mm

Depth

155 mm

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Purchased with funds donated by Crafts Board, Australia Council & Monahan Dayman Adams Pty Ltd, 1985

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.

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