Balloon back chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Textile and walnut.
Measurements
85.5 x 40 x 42 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318222.4
Summary
A walnut balloon-back chair, one of a set of six, English, second half 19th century, the shaped back rails incised with lines, the shaped horizontal back-splat centred by a carved rosette, the overstuffed seat upholstered in textured beige fabric with trim, a moulded seat rail, serpentine-form to the front, with turned, fluted and tapering front legs, the rear with square-section splayed legs.
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.