Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1949
Materials
Mahogany, wool, canvas, trimming, boxwood
Measurements
102 x 57 x 47.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318122.1
Summary
A mahogany open armchair, one of two chairs comprising one side chair and one armchair, English, first half 20th century, with a shaped top rail, the open backs with nine curved vertical backsplats, the uprights, top rail and back splats all with boxwood stringing, the curved armrests joining the uprights and on curved supports, the fixed padded seat covered with needleworked canvas showing flowers on black hexagonal panels divided by cream lines and lozenges, the seat surrounded with brown trim, with plain seat rails, on front cabriole legs and shaped ears, terminating in pad feet, with rear shaped legs. Stamped to the underside of the front seat rail with four 'T's and scratched '591'. The needlework seat was made by Joan Lander's grandmother Lizzie Hunt.
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.
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of front seat rail: Stamped to the underside of the front seat rail with four 'T's and scratched '591'.