Teapoy
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1829
Materials
Rosewood
Measurements
71.5 x 42 x 31.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318140
Summary
A rosewood teapoy, English, early 19th century, the upper box section with a domed lid centred with a stepped flat top section, the waisted body with moulding to the lower rim, on an octagonal baluster pedestal, atop a quadripartite base with scroll-form feet.
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.