Side chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Mahogany, satinwood, cotton
Measurements
88 x 38 x 50 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318142.4.4
Summary
A mahogany and satinwood side chair, 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 an open semi-circular backsplat, above a pierced lute-form and line-inlaid horizontal crossbar, between two uprights terminating in carved scroll forms, with line-inlay to the front of the uprights, the square overstuffed seat, on turned and tapering front legs and curved square-section rear legs, later upholstered to the seat in cotton with pink and white flowers on a pink 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.