Nesting table
Category
Furniture
Date
1930 - 1969
Materials
Oak
Measurements
54 x 55.5 x 36.5 cm
Place of origin
Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318187.1
Summary
An oak nesting table, one of a set of three, British, mid-20th century, the largest of the three nesting tables, with oval top on four square-section legs, with plain frieze panels to the sides, open to the front to allow the other tables to slide underneath, a stretcher between the rear legs near the top, the legs with stretchers to the rear and sides near the base.
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.