Nursing chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Walnut, needlework, beadwork
Measurements
94.5 x 57 x 57.5 cm
Place of origin
United Kingdom
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318141
Summary
A walnut nursing chair, English, second half 19th century, the oval back frame with foliate carved crest and foliate and scroll carved wings, the back rest and seat upholstered with red needlework with beadwork of white lilies and leaves, with red and white braid and trim, the seat sides covered with black fabric, with shaped and scroll carved seat rails on cabriole legs, foliate carved to the knees, with whorl feet and ceramic castors.
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.