RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
An early George III Spanish mahogany pie-crust tripod table,
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Lot Details
the one-piece top with serpentine pie-crust rim, brass snap catch to the hinged top, supported on a fluted turned column and tripod base with decorative leaf carved relief detail and ball and claw feet, dark patina. H.73.5cm. Dia.79cm. Provenance: With Rubin and Co. Antiques, New York. Collection of Dr. W. Oscar Paul, Sydney. Thence by descent. Cordy’s 24 March 2015, lot 572. Note: This table was shown at the 1929 ‘Burdekin House Exhibition’ (no. 248 in the exhibition catalogue) held in the soon-to-be-demolished Burdekin House on Macquarie Street, Sydney. The exhibition consisted of a series of specially decorated rooms, with those on the ground and first floors decorated in various period styles while on the top floor, six small rooms were furnished in the ‘modern manner’. One of the more significant lenders to the period rooms was Dr W. Oscar Paul a noted oral surgeon and collector of art and antiques. The exhibition was a threshold moment in the development of Australian portable material culture. The modern rooms, decorated by artists such as Roy De Maistre, Thea Proctor, Hera Roberts, Adrian Feint and Leon Gellert, have come to represent ‘a pivotal moment in the history of Australian modernism’, according to art historian Martin Terry (in Sydney moderns: art for a new world, edited by Deborah Edwards and Denise Mimmocchi (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013).
