Piano stool
Liberty and Co Ltd
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1925
Materials
Mahogany, needlework
Measurements
59 x 49 x 35 cm
Place of origin
Birmingham
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318151
Summary
A mahogany piano stool, English, first quarter 20th century, the lift up top inset with a padded needlework seat, depicting flowers on a black ground, the top hinged to the rear and lifting to reveal a well, on two pairs of plain square-section legs, each pair joined on a horizontal base bar with two shaped feet. 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
'LIBERTY and Co LTD, 117 and 119 CORPORATION STREET, BIRMINGHAM, LONDON and PARIS' (label inside lid)
Makers and roles
Liberty and Co Ltd