Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Mahogany, dralon, trimming, brass, iron, ceramic
Measurements
96.5 x 76 x 90 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318182
Summary
A mahogany armchair, British, second half 19th century, the sloped backrest with curved top rail extending down to joined the padded armrest, the armrests with carved s-scroll ends, the padded seat with serpentine front and plain rail, with turned and tapering front legs, with gadroon-style carving, on brass caps and castors, the rear square-section legs, curved and on iron and ceramic castors, upholstered in later brown dralon with brown trim.
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.