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Category
Furniture
Date
1920 - 1929
Materials
Walnut, cane, corduroy
Measurements
77 x 67.5 x 59 cm
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318260.1
Summary
A walnut and cane bergere armchair, one of three, circa 1920-30, of tub form, with caning to the back and seat, on turned and block section legs with barley twist stretcher, with a corduroy covered seat cushion.
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. One bergere (1318260.1) was included with the estate in 1997 and the other two (1318260.2 & .3) were purchased from Joan Lander's sister Mrs. Rachel Morris in 1998. These two bergeres were recaned by Mrs. Morris.