Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1899
Materials
Mahogany, pine rails, woven cotton, cord, trimming, horsehair
Measurements
95.5 x 47 x 52.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318163.2
Summary
A mahogany occasional chair, one of a set of three, British, late 19th century, the cameo-form back with moulded rim and carved crest of flowers and leaves, joined to the seat with foliate carved supports, with serpentine-fronted seat on cabriole front legs, carved with scrolls at the top and terminating in whorl feet, with plain section slightly splayed legs to the rear, the overstuffed sprung seat upholstered in beige, gold and blue woven cotton with beige cord and trim, the cameo-seat back upholstered with beige, gold and blue fabric, buttoned to the front, with beige trim. The upholstery is in very poor condition with many rips and tears, most of the beige trim has disintegrated.
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.