Settee
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Mahogany, satinwood, cotton
Measurements
90 x 118 x 70 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318142.2
Summary
A mahogany and satinwood two-seat settee, part of a suite of seat furniture, comprising four side chairs, two low chairs, two armchairs, and one settee, English, circa 1900, the shaped top rail with fan and scroll form satinwood inlay, above two semi-circular padded backrests, each supported by a pierced lute-form, the two backrests divided by a shaped pierced backsplat inlaid with satinwood, with a lower line-inlaid crossbar, the two side line-inlaid uprights terminating in carved scroll forms, the straight armrests with shaped corner brackets, the padded arm cushions before line-inlaid curved supports, the rectangular overstuffed seat, on turned and tapering front legs and curved square-section rear legs, all on ceramic castors, upholstered in woven cotton with cream, green and pink flowers, garlands, ribbons and baskets on a cream ground.
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.