The Art Gallery of South Australia presents Bounty. Nineteenth-century South Australian gold and silver an exhibition on view 5 August 2012.
This exhibition looks at different aspects of nineteenth-century society through such items as the communion silver of churches, the 1852 gold Adelaide pound, Friendly society medallions, civic ceremonial regalia and presentation objects for important citizens and sporting events.
Drawing upon the Art Gallery’s extensive holdings of these works, Bounty also showcases many splendid and rarely seen examples from public, civic, ecclesiastical, sporting and private collections.
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