Fire screen
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1929
Materials
Oak, crewelwork
Measurements
84 x 57 x 22 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318212
Summary
A stained oak firescreen, English, first half 20th century, the shaped crest above a small moulded rectangular panel, above a square glazed panel enclosing a floral crewelwork section in orange, red, yellow and silver tones, surrounded by a reeded frame, flanked by two square-section uprights topped by turned urn finials, terminating on splayed bases.
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.