Garden table
Maker & role
Unknown, Maker
Production date
circa 1920s
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Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 82 x Diam: 76cm (H: 820 x Diam: 760mm)
Credit line
Purchase, Estate of Mrs E Churchill, 1999
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Concrete garden table c.1920s
Description
A concrete garden table with remnants of cream coloured paint on the table top surface. Part of a collection of 11 concrete garden ornament and furniture from the garden at 'Avondale', Gladesville in Sydney. It is believed that the garden ornament were purchased in the 1920s at Murdoch’s Department Store (corner of Park and George Streets) in Sydney.
In the rapidly expanding suburbs of Australia’s major cities, concrete ornament was the perfect choice for the garden. It was hard-wearing, inexpensive, and could be modelled into an almost limitless range of styles and subject matter. Such ornament could be purchased through a variety of retailers or home-made to designs which regularly appeared in journals like 'The Australian Home Beautiful'.
Avondale was constructed around 1888 for solicitor Edwin Lumsdaine and wife Rose Florence Paterson, sister of Australian writer Banjo Paterson. The house was originally called 'Elanerne' and was built on a waterfront estate on Looking Glass Bay, across the water from ‘Rockend’, the 1830s sandstone cottage of Banjo and Florence’s grandmother.
Avondale had a series of owners before being purchased by Alfred and Christina Knibbs in 1911,who refurbished the house in 1922 and remained in residence until 1942. The property was then owned by Norman and Elizabeth Churchill from 1942 to 1992. This and a number of soft furnishings, wallpapers etc in the Caroline Simpson Library collection come from the estate of the late Mrs E Churchill.
In the rapidly expanding suburbs of Australia’s major cities, concrete ornament was the perfect choice for the garden. It was hard-wearing, inexpensive, and could be modelled into an almost limitless range of styles and subject matter. Such ornament could be purchased through a variety of retailers or home-made to designs which regularly appeared in journals like 'The Australian Home Beautiful'.
Avondale was constructed around 1888 for solicitor Edwin Lumsdaine and wife Rose Florence Paterson, sister of Australian writer Banjo Paterson. The house was originally called 'Elanerne' and was built on a waterfront estate on Looking Glass Bay, across the water from ‘Rockend’, the 1830s sandstone cottage of Banjo and Florence’s grandmother.
Avondale had a series of owners before being purchased by Alfred and Christina Knibbs in 1911,who refurbished the house in 1922 and remained in residence until 1942. The property was then owned by Norman and Elizabeth Churchill from 1942 to 1992. This and a number of soft furnishings, wallpapers etc in the Caroline Simpson Library collection come from the estate of the late Mrs E Churchill.
Accession number
L98/27
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