Coat rack
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1899
Materials
Mahogany, brass, mirror
Measurements
103 x 91.5 x 23.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318173
Summary
A mahogany wall-mounted coat and hat rack, English, late 19th century, the shaped crest carved with a floral roundel and incised with scroll motifs, the crest atop a long rail, each rounded end of the rail with a turned straight projecting hanger, below the crest and top rail is a rectangular mirror plate, flanked by two vertical incised bars and two flat corner brackets, below the mirror plate, intersecting with the vertical uprights, are two incised horizontal bars with shaped ends, the vertical uprights each with one large and five small brass hooks, the middle horizontal bar with a brass hook at each extreme end, the lowest horizontal bar each with a hook at the extreme end and one to the centre, the inner corners between the uprights and lowest horizontal bar with flat corner brackets.
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.