Windsor armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oak
Measurements
117.5 x 56 x 50.5 cm
Place of origin
United States
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318177
Summary
An oak Windsor open armchair, English, 19th century, the top rail with thirteen spindles extending down to the seat, the turned uprights terminating in ball finials, the curved armrests on three turned baluster-forms spindles and a turned support, the seat with shaped apron, on four turned and shaped legs joined by two stretchers on each side.
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.