Corner chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1770 - 1799
Materials
Walnut frame and leather seat
Measurements
780 x 450 x 450 cm
Place of origin
United Kingdom
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318176
Summary
A walnut corner chair, English, late 18th century, the curved top rail with scroll-form ends, mounted with a shaped crest, with two pierced and shaped splats to two sides, flanked by three turned supports to the rear three corners and continuing into the legs, the square drop-in seat covered with brown leather, the plain seat rails above four moulded and chamfered square-section legs, the legs joined by an 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.