Chiffonier (sideboard)
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1899
Materials
Mahogany, pine, oak, brass
Measurements
94 x 152.5 x 55.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318193
Summary
A mahogany sideboard, English, late 19th century, the rectangular top with shaped gallery to the rear, a single frieze drawer with S-form front, with two doors with arched panels, flanked by scroll-form corbels and carved floral motifs to the top and carved foliate scrolls at the base, on a plain plinth base with chamfered top edge, the pine and oak interior of the cupboard with a single fixed shelf and a deep drawer to the right hand side, the drawer with mahogany veneered front and brass swan neck handle, the interior of the drawer with dividers probably for wine bottles.
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.