Corner chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1770 - 1799
Materials
Elm frame and rush seat
Measurements
78 x 46 x 46 cm
Place of origin
United Kingdom
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318175
Summary
An elm corner chair, English, late 18th century, the curved level top rail centred by a shaped crest, with three turned supports, one to each of the rear corners, the two rear sides each with a pierved vase-form splat, the square rush seat with plain seat rails, on four square-section legs with ceramic castors, the legs joined by a turned X-stretcher.
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.