Castlemaine. Australian pottery at Buda House. Remued or Preston Premier Pottery vase with gum leaves. 1930s. Designer Margaret Kerr. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Castlemaine. Australian pottery at Buda House. Remued or Preston Premier Pottery vase with gum leaves. 1930s. Designer Margaret Kerr. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Buda House.Ernest Leviny (1818-1905) a Hungarian from Budapest purchased this house in Castlemaine as he had a jeweller’s shop here. Members of his family lived in the house for 118 years from 1863 to 1981. Leviny arrived on the goldfields at Forest Creek (Castlemaine) in 1853 and employed labourers to pan for gold for him. He soon gave up on that and settled in Castlemaine where he established his goldsmith and jewellery business. Leviny purchased Delhi Villa in 1863 which he immediately renamed Buda House after his birthplace. The Italianate house was named Delhi Villa by the builder a Baptist missionary who had lived and worked in India for some years. Buda villa was dramatically extended around 1890 with two south facing bay windows and a new façade added in a baroque style enclosing former verandas. The house has bright green window shutters which is a typically Hungarian fashion. Just after Ernest purchased the property in 1863 he travelled to Launceston where he married an English girl Bertha Hudson whom he had met in Victoria in the late 1850s. Bertha was 20 years of age when they married in 1864 in the Anglican Church in Launceston. After the marriage they returned to live in Buda. By the time of his marriage Ernest Leviny had made a name for himself as a goldsmith and he exhibited pieces at the London International Exhibition of 1862 and the Victorian Exhibition of 1858.The collections of the house include a photograph of a superb silver standing cup produced by Ernest Leviny about 1860 and a photograph of a gold and red gum ink stand presented to the contractor of the Bendigo Railway at Woodend in 1861 – it is considered to be one of Leviny’s finest goldsmith pieces. Both these pieces are in the National Gallery of Victoria and not in Buda House. But the house does have a decorated Emu egg on a silver stand washed with gold inside made by Ernest Leviny and another Emu egg with silver emu on top made by Leviny for sale in his Castlemaine jeweller’s shop etc. Leviny’s daughters were collectors of fine art and craft and the house has several outstanding linocut pictures which they purchased and several Arts and Crafts pieces of furniture. Almost all pieces in Buda were made by or were the property of members of the Leviny family. Five of Ernest’s six daughters never married and they spent most of their lives at Buda which is now operated as part of the Castlemaine Art Gallery. After Ernest’s death in 1905 the daughters redecorated the house in Australian Arts and Crafts style. The daughters of Leviny were also instrumental in the establishment of the Castlemaine Art Gallery in 1913. They were also keen gardeners. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-04-01 14:21:35 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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