Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1899
Materials
Beech, cane
Measurements
82 x 51.5 x 41.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318186
Summary
A beech open armchair, English, late 19th century, the rectangular top rail incised with leaves and fans, on turned and shaped uprights, a shaped horizontal splat carved with foliage and scrolls, the curved armrest on turned supports, the caned seat with plain rails, on turned and tapering front legs, and with rear square-section legs, a single turned stretcher to the front, two plain stretchers to either side and the rear.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.