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CUP, PORCELAIN - WHITE,WITH GOLD PATTERN EXTERIOR

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c. 1930

Overview

Shallow bowl with a base which flares out and has scalloped bottom edge, it has six small holes in the narrowest portion with an ornate gilt handle attached. In the base of the bowl there is an image of two females in classic wooded pose accompanied by two lambs, the inner side is decorated with three elongated burgundy panels and three green diamonds. There is an ornate gilt pattern over these panels and up to the lip of the cup with a similar design just below the lip on the outside surface.

Historical information

Samuel Thomas Lindsey was born in Swaffhelm England in 1885 and died in Armadale in 1963. He became an ordained priest in 1911, serving in many different locations including St. Albans Highgate (1910-1912), St. George's Cathedral (1912-1915), St. Mary's West Perth (1915-1917), Brookton (1917-1920), Kellerberrin (1920-1921), Gingin (1921-1925), Armadale (1925-1935), Maylands (1936-1947) and Leederville (1947-1949). He retired in 1949 to live in Armadale, but volunteered his time to the Church of England Armadale.

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Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2005.2

Year

c. 1930

Statement of significance

This is part of a collection of items used by Samuel and Cecily Lindsey in the mid 1900s. Samuel was an Anglican priest who worked at a variety of ministries across Western Australia including St Matthew's Church in Armadale between c1925 and 1935. The Lindsey family would have lived at the nearby Rectory building located on Prospect Road. Following Samuel's retirement in 1949 he and Cecily moved back to Armadale where they lived until the mid 1960s.

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