Dressing chest
Category
Furniture
Date
1920 - 1929
Materials
Oak, beech, brass, mirror
Measurements
171.5 x 104 x 50.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318228
Summary
An oak dressing chest, British, circa 1920s, the chest with structure to the rear with shaped top with cut-out to centre, with a small drawer to each side above a pigeon hole, a space between the two of them, atop the structure is tilting mirror supported between two barley-twist supports each with an urn finial, the beveled mirror plate set into a reeded frame with stepped cornice, the chest with two short above two long drawers with quarter-filets, the drawer fronts applied with geometric shapes (some small panels absent), the drawers with brass drop handles, on shaped base with flattened bun feet.
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.